flim-flam

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Verb1.flim-flam - deceive somebodyflim-flam - deceive somebody; "We tricked the teacher into thinking that class would be cancelled next week"
cozen, deceive, delude, lead on - be false to; be dishonest with
snooker - fool or dupe; "He was snookered by the con-man's smooth talk"
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There is so much stuff in life you just expect and if you don't get it, well, I don't want to wake up one day and think 'S**t, I missed out on the important stuff doing flim-flam things and didn't have time.
'Flag Day' which is based on a true story will be directed from a script by Tony-winning playwright Jez Butterworth, which is based on Jennifer Vogel's 2005 memoir 'Flim-Flam Man: The True Story of My Father's Counterfeit Life,' reported Hollywood Reporter.
It was the usual bag of spin we have already come to expect from the flim-flam merchant who is running the show now.
But this flim-flam document adds little to the debate.
I have got huge respect for her, I wrote that in my resignation letter, it is not flim-flam. I have worked very closely with her on Brexit and I think there is still the opportunity to get this right, support the Prime Min-ister - but she must also listen and change course on Brexit."
Act grumpy 80% of the time, so people don't talk to you unless it is absolutely necessary - this saves a lot of nonsense talk and means you only get the highlights, none of the flim-flam.
British Conservatives are coagulating around the Boris Johnson view, that Trump should be cultivated any way he wishes, since our prosperity is more important than any of that values flim-flam. But perhaps more surprising is the ease with which the international financial elites have decided to weather the wall-building, Muslim-banning, white-supremacist, hyper-bordered politics that the US president represents.
With the National Hunt season now within touching distance, praise the Lord, two of the biggest yards in the business - those of Nicky Henderson and Gordon Elliott - gave their State of the Union addresses this week and if you can cut through the usual flim-flam there's always a few nuggets.
The principal reports that the child regularly cons other children out of their lunch money, and runs flim-flam swindles during recess.
The author also lets his personal beliefs shine through, calling the idea of a national bank manipulating debts a "financial flim-flam," condemning modern party politics for blocking needed reforms, and lamenting how the United States has ignored Washington's advice on neutrality, leading to "wars without finite, achievable goals in Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere" (110, 223).
In Aristotle and an Aardvark Go to Washington, our two favorite philosopher-comedians return just in time to save us from the double-speak, flim-flam, and alternate reality of politics in America.
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