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flim-flam

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Verb1.flim-flamflim-flam - deceive somebody; "We tricked the teacher into thinking that class would be cancelled next week"
play a trick on, play tricks, pull a fast one on, trick, fob, fox, play a joke on
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 are a few true-to-life flim-flam men, though, whose cons are the stuff that films are made of.
True lies by Douthat, Ross / National Review
As the curtain rises, a flim-flam Broadway producer, Martin Klemmer (played frenetically by Joe Farrell), has somehow gotten Paul Newman on the phone.
THE ONLY THING LEGENDARY ABOUT THESE DIVAS IS THEIR BAD ACTING by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
Flim-flam and the practice of law are, as we all know, not strangers.
A classier con by Peters, Charles / Washington Monthly
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