词汇 | flimflam |
释义 | flimflam noun[ U ] old-fashionedinformaluk /ˈflɪm.flæm/ us /ˈflɪm.flæm/ talk that is confusing and intended to deceive胡扯,鬼话 Lies, lying & hypocrisy a pack of liesidiom artifice bad faith black is whiteidiom cakeism falsehood falsification feed someone a lineidiom fib fiction lie mythologize perjure perjury polygraph someone can talk!idiom stretch the truthidiom weasel words white lie whopper Examples of flimflamflimflam Yet every paragraph of their article contains at least one piece of flimflam. From Slate Magazine He wrote the book on flimflam, and a certain modern politician has studied it well. From Washington Times He is the king of using distracting shiny objects, the emperor of flimflam, the constant star of his own 1980s-style soap opera. From Chicago Tribune Still, most ordinary people know well enough that there is a real difference between the truth and a lie, knowledge and propaganda, strong evidence and rhetorical flimflam. But you're as likely as any to be mistook on a flimflam game, such as these loafers is putting up. From Project Gutenberg I tried my darndest to flimflam the information out of him, but it was no use. From Project Gutenberg He saw that modern financial ingenuity has found a way to flimflam the devil himself. From Project Gutenberg He went to the barn and hustled his various duties, not even grudging the forty dollars of which he had been beguiled for the flimflam funeral. From Project Gutenberg These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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