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If you're with me so far in this blogospheric Three Card Monte, let me add that all of this happens in a Yiddish accent.
Rachel Shteir: The Holocaust Follies or Slapstick Without a Cause 2008
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There they would witness a happy customer or two win a few games of Leary Belt, Three Card Monte, Innocent Strap, shell-and-pea, or whatever, thereby becoming convinced that the game could be beaten.
City of Baraboo Longyear, Barry 1980
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It's the video where you've got Penn and Teller running a Three Card Monte game and they're turning this poor girl out.
Comic Book Resources 2010
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"Instead of real tax reform that makes life easier for working families, we have a tax shift that moves the money around like a game of Three Card Monte."
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Three Card Monte style of game that becomes more complicated as the game progresses and more fish appear on the screen.
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A great metaphor for Wall Street versus #OWS -- The Three Card Monte.
Crooks and Liars Bluegal aka Fran 2011
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