Someone capable of tossing, catching, and keeping aloft a great number of objects at the same time. A skilled accountant.
"But after dinner was all our sport, when there come in a juggler, who indeed did shew us so good tricks as I have never seen in my life, I think, of legerdemaine, and such as my wife hath since seriously said that she would not believe but that he did them by the help of the devil."
Samuel Pepys, Diary (May 24, 1667).
"All the little tricks of finance which the expertest juggler of the treasury can practise."
Edmund Burke, Observations on the present State of the Nation (1769).
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