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- noun Misinformation;
bunkum ; false information presented as true. - noun
confidence game ,con game - noun archaic
table tennis
Etymologies
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Examples
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Much of what they say is flim-flam, and this blog aims to set the record straight.
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Much of what they say is flim-flam, and this blog aims to set the record straight.
Guest Post: What’s the Logic of Language? « Motivated Grammar 2010
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And flim-flam them into seriously believing that they're not only part of something, they're part of a "Revolution!"
Robert J. Elisberg: The "Tea Party" Is Not Revolting Robert J. Elisberg 2011
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Even John McCain and John Boehner are now on-board the Obama flim-flam.
Matthew Yglesias » Obama Moves Decisively to End the War in Iraq 2009
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And flim-flam them into seriously believing that they're not only part of something, they're part of a "Revolution!"
Robert J. Elisberg: The "Tea Party" Is Not Revolting Robert J. Elisberg 2011
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• Another day of calm at the London School of Economics, where students yesterday demanded the dismissal of Satoshi Kanazawa, the evolutionary psychologist/flim-flam merchant who posted a blog in a quest to explain "why black women are less physically attractive".
Hugh Muir's diary 2011
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Thirty years of voodoo economics and flim-flam have come home to roost as projected.
Matthew Yglesias » On So-Called “Irresponsible” Borrowers 2009
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Much of what they say is flim-flam, and this blog aims to set the record straight.
Jan Freeman hits nails on their heads « Motivated Grammar 2009
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What do people do when hope runs out and there has been no change, just more flim-flam like “public utilities” with a wind-mill stuck on their ponds of coal-ash, nuclear waste, and toxic-debt.
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Who knows better than you the story of the financial and political flim-flam artists who brought this country to its knees, made out like bandits, and left the 99% in the dust?
Tom Engelhardt: OWS at Valley Forge Tom Engelhardt 2011
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