A more useful and abiding analogy is that of the confidence game.

Banking is a confidence game, even if done soberly and responsibly.

I'll be --if I will be taken in on any confidence game.

That man has been wanted for a year for putting over a confidence game.

The perceived need to play the confidence game supersedes the normal concerns of economic policy.

You play dat confidence game and dey'll rat ye-see?

You have been trying a bold confidence game.

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That might not be enough at this stage of the geopolitical confidence game, if you ask visionary writer Ellis.

It was a confidence game.

The whole thing is a confidence game, and while confidence games can produce genuine results, those depend on, well, confidence.

His was the first playing on a colossal scale of the now worn-out "get rich quick" confidence game.

The success which at the outset of party welfare attended this legalized confidence game drew into it more and more players.

The New Yorker, May 30, 1925 P. 1 How a confidence game was worked on an alienist.

But I felt sure that he had heard enough to warrant the belief that some kind of confidence game was being discussed.

It commenced with robbing birds' nests and orchards, and ended with the confidence game for which he was last sent to jail.