A swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property.
1A more useful and abiding analogy is that of the confidence game.
2Banking is a confidence game, even if done soberly and responsibly.
3I'll be --if I will be taken in on any confidence game.
4That man has been wanted for a year for putting over a confidence game.
5The perceived need to play the confidence game supersedes the normal concerns of economic policy.
6You play dat confidence game and dey'll rat ye-see?
7You have been trying a bold confidence game.
8Describes his confidence game... View Article
9That might not be enough at this stage of the geopolitical confidence game, if you ask visionary writer Ellis.
10It was a confidence game.
11The whole thing is a confidence game, and while confidence games can produce genuine results, those depend on, well, confidence.
12His was the first playing on a colossal scale of the now worn-out "get rich quick" confidence game.
13The success which at the outset of party welfare attended this legalized confidence game drew into it more and more players.
14The New Yorker, May 30, 1925 P. 1 How a confidence game was worked on an alienist.
15But I felt sure that he had heard enough to warrant the belief that some kind of confidence game was being discussed.
16It commenced with robbing birds' nests and orchards, and ended with the confidence game for which he was last sent to jail.
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