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Meanings of flimflam in English
A swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property.
Usage of flimflam in English
1
Dr. Deacon gave us some flimflam about how good our boy was-weknew that.
2
We joined up with that pair of flimflam artists and traveled south with them.
3
Coolidge-veteranthief, flimflam man, and law clerk-wasthe self-appointed elder statesman of the group.
4
The head of Hollywood Star Productions continued weaving his flimflam.
5
The way I see it, this is all flimflam.
6
Huckleberry Finn tangled with flimflam men on Mississippi riverboats.
7
It should not contain "flimflam" with which commentators and politicians "conceal their own puzzlement".
8
The whole thing was a big flimflam.
9
And that is, we've never thought of any reason why Lachlan should go for any kind of flimflam.
10
Though a flimflam artist down to the soles of his moccasins, Lazarus claimed to be an actual doctor.
11
What kind of flimflam is it?
12
But you're as likely as any to be mistook on a flimflam game, such as these loafers is putting up.
13
How could you have ever believed for a minute she didn't offer real services, not flimflam, for all the money she gets?
14
Now that I'd been hauled into this talk of death and the merits of Lazarus's flimflam Elixir, it all didn't seem so grim.
15
I thought thou hadst been a lad of higher mettle than to give way to a parcel of maidenish tricks.-- Itellthee 'tis all flimflam.
16
He's been flimflammed into believing you the greatest man in the United States.
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Frequent collocations
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