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Significados de flimflam en inglés
A swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property.
Sinónimos
Examples for "sting"
Examples for "sting"
1
There is a simple way to test this: let something sting you.
2
The disappointment was unavoidable; but the sting of it lies in yourself.
3
Here's the good news, the risk of a sting is pretty low.
4
Fear not that my aim is pleasure; this will sting soon enough.
5
Within days, federal authorities launched a sting that culminated in Balkany's arrest.
1
According to him, English players have long known how to con referees.
2
According to the actress, Wilson used his children to further his con.
3
You're spiritual con men, confidence tricksters offering false faith and false hope.
4
Mr Lowry is con testing the Tipperary North election as an Independent.
5
But no way was I falling for this guy's penny-pinching con job.
1
But in the case of the Harrises, hustle is a family thing.
2
The point is, this no longer looks like a fly-by-night hustle job.
3
Bradshaws were in great evidence everywhere; all was hustle and glad animation.
4
This is the City Hall Police Headquarters again; hustle it up, please.
5
The Mavs' bench provided the hustle in the big 34-point second quarter.
1
He'd gyp me for ten dollars, but he'd probably come for five.
2
I asked of the gyp who waited on Vincey and myself.
3
As I have said, he was a devil of a gyp.
4
The question seemed to Gyp idiotic; and suddenly she felt quite cool.
5
Gyp walked across the room and put her hand on the bell.
1
This is one of the greatest bunco games ever practiced upon workingmen.
2
I won't combine it with being a bunco steerer on the side.
3
Because of your gestures I believe you are trying to bunco this court.
4
Five thousand for a claim on that damned moose-pasture is bunco.
5
Let him bunco me into putting through that dam for him!
1
There were no burglaries, gambling, picking of pockets, bunko swindling or handbook betting.
2
The idea that children of queer parents do poorly in school is also bunko.
3
While Benton was photographing Gibson and Hatch, John observed the bunko swindler more closely.
4
He bosses everything, gambling, stick-ups, bookmakers, pickpockets, bunko men, street walking women and dope peddling.
5
He had done time in seven states, always for theft or burglary or con games or bunko.
1
They judged by the calibre of the men interested, and branded it a bunco game.
2
Damn it, I'm sick of the bunco game, Bat-
3
Then there were the fools who took the organized bunco game seriously, honoring and respecting it.
4
Society, as organized, was a vast bunco game.
5
I don't want to run any bunco game.
1
Sometimes another form of confidence trick is adopted, which is invariably successful.
2
No doubt they knew that his dizzying promotion was just a confidence trick.
3
I realized, then, that I had fallen for a confidence trick.
4
The queen's formal power is a kind of confidence trick in which almost everyone acquiesces.
5
This is the confidence trick under another form.
1
A more useful and abiding analogy is that of the confidence game.
2
Banking is a confidence game, even if done soberly and responsibly.
3
I'll be --if I will be taken in on any confidence game.
4
That man has been wanted for a year for putting over a confidence game.
5
The perceived need to play the confidence game supersedes the normal concerns of economic policy.
1
This is a con game being played by the Democrats, Trump added.
2
A hot-and-cold con game For some, the adore-ignore syndrome is a manipulative strategy.
3
None o' that Christian con game goes around where I am.
4
He would have died for a hollow farce, a ruse, a con game!
5
Maybe Sergeant Wigg's con game is closer to the truth here than we think.'
Uso de flimflam en inglés
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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