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confidence game

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confidence game
n.
A swindle in which the victim is defrauded after his or her confidence has been won.
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Noun1.confidence game - a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property
bunco, bunco game, bunko, bunko game, con game, confidence trick, flimflam, gyp, hustle, con, sting
sting operation - a complicated confidence game planned and executed with great care (especially an operation implemented by undercover agents to apprehend criminals)
swindle, cheat, rig - the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme; "that book is a fraud"
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In the face of the booms and busts of the capitalist economy, the confidence game of shrewd deception and cool risk taking was often what was required--and secretly admired.
Against all odds by Tumber, Catherine / Commonweal
This unfamiliarity and heightened expectation, matched with the trappings of competence, gave potency to what has turned out to be the Bush administration's signature political tactic, the confidence game.
Confidence men: why the myth of Republican competence persists, ... by Marshall, Joshua Micah / Washington Monthly
If it sounds a bit like a confidence game, that may be because it's public confidence that gives money value in the first place.
The Art of the Deal by Walker, Jesse / Reason
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