gold-brick

The one with the beautiful silver beard is a race-track owner over in New Jersey, and they call the red-headed Jew talking to "Honest John Kelly" the king of the gold-brick men.

Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905 Various

He swapped me a black hoss with a star an 'snip, that looked like the genuine thing, but was about the neatest turned gold-brick that was ever put on an unsuspectin' millionaire.

The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills John Trotwood Moore

Exactly when and exactly how Fate, that king of gold-brick men, had cheated him he could not say; but he knew, with a certainty that defied argument, that there had been sharp practise, and that in an unguarded moment he had been induced to part with something of infinite value in exchange for a gilded fraud.

The Prince and Betty 1928

When I found that there fact out I jest calc'lated he was ripe to do a mite of gold-brick buyin 'himself ....

Scattergood Baines Clarence Budington Kelland 1922

Nearly everybody who comes in here wants to sell us a gold-brick, and you treat them as if they were bringing in wedding presents.

A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays Willa Sibert Cather 1910

Such tricks probably saved him in later life from the wiles of "confidence men" and gold-brick dealers, or even from a corner lot in a "boom town," but it was often a cruel lesson.

History of the University of North Carolina. Volume I: From its Beginning to the Death of President Swain, 1789-1868 Kemp Plummer 1907

Say, I didn't think you could gold-brick Pinckney as easy as that.

Shorty McCabe Sewell Ford 1907

Think of living in a house that people would laugh at and call the 'gold-brick' house!

Otherwise Phyllis Meredith Nicholson 1906

You do your enviable reputation for intelligence a rank injustice by mistaking poor old George for an economic Messiah, and if you are not careful somebody will try to sell you a gold-brick or stock in a Klondike company.

The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 10 1905

They used to tell me that they didn't have any gold-brick men over there.

Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son Being the Letters written by John Graham, Head of the House of Graham & Company, Pork-Packers in Chicago, familiarly known on 'Change as "Old Gorgon Graham," to his Son, Pierrepont, facetiously known to his intimates as "Piggy." George Horace Lorimer 1902