flim-flams

"Change you can believe in" can now be filed with those other historic flim-flams: "A chicken in every pot" [Herbert Hoover, 1928], "He kept us out of war" [Woodrow Wilson, 1916], "Compassionate Conservatism" [Bush, Junior, 2000].

Obama Hits Auto Execs As "Tone Deaf," Demands "Ethic Of Responsibility" For Business Bigs 2009

Let artists create works exposing their flim-flams along with their names.

Philip Slater: Creating A Register of Shame For White-Collar Malefactors 2009

They included the sale of complex securities packaged in deceptive and misleading ways; far too much borrowing to finance speculative investments; and gross conflicts of interest on the part of insiders who stood to profit from flim-flams.

How do we prevent this financial collapse from cascading into Great Depression II? Stephen Retherford 2008

Obama advisers insisted the gas-tax issue ultimately let him play his desired role -- the truth-teller who will change Washington and end political flim-flams.

Clinton Vows to Press Ahead 2008

Obama advisers insisted the gas-tax issue ultimately let him play his desired role -- the truth-teller who will change Washington and end political flim-flams.

Obama Wins North Carolina, 2008

They included the sale of complex securities packaged in deceptive and misleading ways; far too much borrowing to finance speculative investments; and gross conflicts of interest on the part of insiders who stood to profit from flim-flams.

Archive 2008-09-01 Stephen Retherford 2008

You're free to use every trick in my book of scams, shams and flim-flams to make all the money you can while doing my will.

Ann, Ann, plagiarist, Stole some lines, and a book did write? 2006

I wonder you can put such flim-flams upon us, Sir: I do, I do.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864 Various

He took the same delight in employing them in his works as he did flim-flams, flub-dubs, and catamarans.

Eugene Field A Study In Heredity And Contradictions Thompson, Slason 1901

I wants a brass lamp an 'he says I'm gettin' scandalous in my old age -- awastin 'money on flim-flams fer the settin' room.

Polly's Business Venture Lillian Elizabeth Roy 1900