| 单词 | three-card monte |
| 例句 | Yakov won the first two games, but when it came time to find the Lady at three-card monte, he uncovered a worthless heart. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z “Class now is really like three-card monte,” he said. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Video images and simulcasts, as deft as the hands of a three-card monte artist, keep your eyes moving so you often know where sounds and images originate. Review: Who Am I? ‘Panorama’ Says There Is No Easy Answer 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z At one point, when Lincoln practices his three-card monte skills, the red light that floods around him is as hypnotic as his con-man patter. Suzan-Lori Parks’s ‘Topdog/Underdog’ gets a sharp revival 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z It’s a three-card monte as to who winds up where with what and whom. At 82, ‘NCIS’ actor David McCallum has written a delicious crime caper 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z If anti-environmentalist politics resemble a game of three-card monte, it’s one in which all the cards are face up and the marks place their bets on a nonexistent ace. Review: ‘Merchants of Doubt,’ Separating Science From Spin 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z Feeling that the game was rigged, young Bernie Sanders tried to get each of the three-card monte players in Brooklyn broken up into three one-card monte players. Style Invitational: B all you can B — a neologism contest 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z Yet despite being in the anonymous, cathedral-size Marquis, “Penn & Teller on Broadway” feels almost as intimate as a sidewalk game of three-card monte. Review: ‘Penn & Teller on Broadway’ Explores the Illusions of Technology 2015-07-12T04:00:00Z The exhibition’s only allusion to performance art, they show her in front of a grated storefront conducting a three-card monte game. Art Review: The Art and Heart of the Dealer 2011-08-04T22:07:12Z Not all of them are cheap hustlers sitting at tables at subway stops or in parks, offering you a shot a being the first person ever to win at three-card monte or the shell game. Elizabeth Holmes' all-American scam: HBO's "The Inventor" reveals the science of the con 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z Lincoln was once a whiz at three-card monte, but he now has a steady job playing his namesake, the 16th president, in an arcade where customers pay to mock-assassinate him. Suzan-Lori Parks’s ‘Topdog/Underdog’ gets a sharp revival 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z Booth wants Lincoln to team up with him for a three-card monte scam. Suzan-Lori Parks’s ‘Topdog/Underdog’ gets a sharp revival 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z And then they’re surprised or caught off guard at the end, which is what Corey refers to as the “three-card monte” trick within the play. In ‘Topdog/Underdog,’ They Perfect the Art of Deception 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z Here was the smartest rocker, the LSE student, being taken in a game of three-card monte. Secrets of the “Exile” sessions: Drugs, sex and madness as the Rolling Stones took over France 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z Corey Hawkins plays Lincoln, a three-card monte hustler turned Abraham Lincoln impersonator in an arcade shooting game, opposite Yahya Abdul-Mateen II as the boastful, envious Booth, for whom inheritance is everything. What to See on Broadway in October 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z In a seedy rooming house apartment, as one man rehearses his three-card monte spiel — “watch me close, watch me close now” — Abraham Lincoln arrives with Chinese takeout. Review: In ‘Topdog/Underdog,’ Staying Alive Is the Ultimate Hustle 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z Booth’s career goal is to go into three-card monte, too, but he does not have his big brother’s gift. | New Jersey: A Review of ‘Topdog/Underdog,’ at the Two River Theater Company 2012-09-22T05:19:06Z Images of a floral arrangement, in color and black and white, alternate with exposed brick in a kind of three-card monte. Art in Review: ADAM MARNIE: ?Locus Rubric? 2011-09-29T21:52:31Z Trying to do that would be like playing three-card monte on Canal Street.” Benjamin Walker, Sexypants Vampire Hunter 2012-06-17T06:13:01Z The two-character comedy “Topdog/Underdog,” developed at the Public Theater, caught his fancy in part because the plot involved three-card monte. Richard Steiner, Producer of Broadway Hits, Dies at 69 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z Like three-card monte, or jazz, the play — and, at its best, Kenny Leon’s direction of it — moves too fast for analysis. Review: In ‘Topdog/Underdog,’ Staying Alive Is the Ultimate Hustle 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z The price — barely $100 per night — inspired suspicion, and I approached the lobby as I would approach a game of three-card monte. 10 Travel Writers, 10 Favorite Hotels 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z I collaborated with the people at Peculiar on the concept of three-card monte. Behind the Poster: '3 Christs' 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z Lincoln supports them with a gig as an Abraham Lincoln impersonator, and Booth spends his days shoplifting, aggressively trying to woo an ex and planning his debut as a master of three-card monte. When Black Characters Double-Deal to Make Ends Meet, It’s Never Enough 2023-01-14T05:00:00Z In depicting three-card monte Parks is also depicting capitalism, the über-hustle. Review: In ‘Topdog/Underdog,’ Staying Alive Is the Ultimate Hustle 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z He was not popular with the three-card monte guys. Penn and Teller, Reconjured on Broadway 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z If you see anyone playing three-card monte or a shell game, just keep walking. Traveling soon? Look out for these new tourism scams 2023-08-28T04:00:00Z Another Pulitzer winner now in a blistering Broadway revival, Suzan-Lori Parks’s “Topdog/Underdog,” features as its dramatic linchpin the art of the street hustle, in three-card monte. Perspective | A casino in hectic Times Square? This theater critic says heck no. 2022-11-29T05:00:00Z Crime plummeted, corporate profits soared, and three-card monte dealers in Times Square gave way to Disney characters. Review | How Rudy Giuliani, once a national hero, ruined his own reputation 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z “In the name of democratizing finance, what I am seeing is a game of three-card monte where they are moving balls around hoping people don’t understand the game is rigged,” Mr. Awrey said. Big Hires, Big Money and a D.C. Blitz: A Bold Plan to Dominate Crypto 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z When it comes to pitching strategy, the Dodgers are the slick street hustler and the opponent is the mark, certain to fall for their three-card monte act. Atlanta Bought in Bulk to Replace the Irreplaceable 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z This preacher with the gray, combed-back hair speaks of the con man’s game of three-card monte, as well as the Bible’s blind beggar, Bartimaeus. Perspective | The space filled by Al Sharpton’s prayers and politics 2021-05-04T04:00:00Z Nunes compared the proceedings against President Trump to "three-card monte" and the medieval Inquisition. Nunes slams impeachment 'three-card monte,' then yields to Schiff for 'storytime hour' 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z Decades back, my wife and I were newly married, and we wandered in a fine mood through Manhattan and came upon a game of three-card monte. Does Calgary Really Want the Winter Olympics? Does Anyone? 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z Donald Trump, a lifelong resident of New York, most certainly watched street hustlers run their con with games such as three-card monte on unsuspecting tourists and other marks. Trump’s USA Today op-ed: The real point was to threaten his enemies with violence 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z “It really amounts to a game of three-card monte,” he added. 4 Years After Eric Garner’s Death, Secrecy Law on Police Discipline Remains Unchanged 2018-06-03T04:00:00Z He won with the tools that have cast spells on Alabama voters for two centuries: race, religion, hysterical oratory, intimidation of critics and economic three-card monte dealt by big-business hand jivers. Opinion | Roy Moore’s Alabama 2017-12-09T05:00:00Z Let them treat truth like the money card in a game of three-card monte. ‘Compromise’ means America always finds a way to sell black people out 2017-11-05T04:00:00Z They’ll keep playing three-card monte with you while you keep thinking you know which cup has the penny in it. Greg Palast: Trump’s tax cuts are more evidence America’s greedy billionaires have staged a political coup 2017-05-06T04:00:00Z But upending trade agreements, creating jobs that manufacture goods people cannot pay for, or that will be heavily tarrifed by other countries, is really just a game of three-card monte. 2016 in Charts. (And Can Trump Deliver in 2017?) 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z Of course, it s almost impossible to win a game of three-card monte against a dealer as skilled as Andrew Jones. Donald Trump’s diversity hustle: His “best black friend” and a few women can’t conceal his true agenda 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z “I practiced everywhere I could,” he said of three-card monte. One of the Last 3-Card Monte Dealers Declares Game Over 2016-10-30T04:00:00Z Getting swindled by playing three-card monte was once a common occurrence for tourists in New York City. Mosul, Republican Party, Los Angeles Dodgers: Your Monday Briefing 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z The earliest mentions of three-card monte in The New York Times date to the 1850s in articles about farmers losing fortunes to “an unfair game.” A Veteran Con Man Works a New Crowd With an Old Trick 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z Mr. Patton, the public defender in Manhattan, said the questions surrounding Mr. Rahami’s representation were “starting to look like a game of three-card monte.” Public Defender Says Prosecutor Denied Him Access to Ahmad Rahami 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z Defense attorneys likened the state’s case to a game of three-card monte, with prosecutors constantly shifting their theory as to how Gray was injured. Verdict scheduled for Thursday for officer charged in Freddie Gray’s death 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z The police said his record showed 17 arrests involving three-card monte. One of the Last 3-Card Monte Dealers Declares Game Over 2016-10-30T04:00:00Z He also compared prosecutors' case to three-card monte, a con game in which a card is hidden from a bettor. Closing arguments wrap up in Baltimore cop's trial over Freddie Gray death 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z Think of it as the Department of Defense’s version of the street con game, three-card monte, or maybe simply as the Pentagon shuffle. The Pentagon’s dark money: Billions of federal dollars are vanishing into thin air 2016-05-28T04:00:00Z Having sewn up the nomination, Trump has entered the three-card monte phase of his campaign, in which he shuffles his positions so quickly that the gullible patsy loses track. Ryan and Trump’s painful sham 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z The customer essentially is faced with trying to find the queen of hearts in a game of three-card monte. News About Obamacare Has Been Bad Lately. How Bad? 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, here in Washington, Lafayette Square was overrun by Sciurus carolinensis, the Eastern gray squirrel, a shakedown artist as aggressive as any three-card monte hustler. Remembering the Great Squirrel Purge of Lafayette Square 2016-04-10T04:00:00Z She also looks at small-time street hustlers who entice people with the prospect of riches from three-card monte. The Art of the Con: Maria Konnikova on scams, grifters and being easily duped 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z “I grew up in New York City, and I saw people doing three-card monte,” said Haskel Straus, 64, who is retired from teaching business people a communication technique known as neurolinguistic programming. Where the Father of the Ponzi Scheme Once Slept 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z There is a flash of three-card monte below the surface, as these men sell you on meatballs with your pasta or promise that the lemon cheesecake is “the best you’ll ever have in your life.” Restaurant Review: Carbone in Manhattan 2013-06-04T20:23:13Z Shanahan’s offense relies on a group of players flawlessly executing a combination of roles, but its heartbeat is misdirection and deception — eyes here and the action over there — in football’s version of three-card monte. Washington Redskins’ offense is the three-card monte of the NFL 2013-01-05T23:26:54Z Instead, it creates a kind of international trade three-card monte game. Argentina's International Trade Disaster 2012-11-08T20:00:53Z It’s ‘slick,’ all right, but it is the slickness of the crooked gambler and the three-card monte man. Bert Wilson's Fadeaway Ball 2012-03-02T03:00:09.747Z Judges here show waning patience for the three-card monte act of some banks. Gotham: In a Queens Neighborhood, Signs of Uneven Burdens From a Housing Crisis 2012-02-07T04:00:57Z It described what is essentially a nuclear version of three-card monte, in which scientists are hidden in organizations with names like “Section for Advanced Development Applications and Technologies” and at universities around Tehran. U.N. Finds Signs of Work by Iran Toward Nuclear Device 2011-11-08T20:28:23Z Their movements over the next few weeks resemble the game three-card monte. 3-Planet Monte, Meteors and the Mall 2009-10-04T04:00:00Z “We’ve been playing three-card monte with these kids, shuffling them from school to school,” he said, “and we forgot about quality education.” District May End Economic Diversity Program 2010-02-27T18:11:00Z Two of the well-known sharpers who hung around the camps had enticed little Pete in there, and to a game of three-card monte. Si Klegg, Book 6 (of 6) Si And Shorty, With Their Boy Recruits, Enter On The Atlanta Campaign He'll try anything once, and it don't make no difference to him whether it's three-card monte or a new kind of submarine. Kid Scanlan Passengers will beware of playing three-card monte, strap, or any other game of chance, with strangers. Life at Puget Sound: With Sketches of Travel in Washington Territory, British Columbia, Oregon and California He is now living in West Virginia with his family, and no one would think, to see him, that he used to catch rattlesnakes for a living, or played three-card monte with old Devol. Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi Better stay at home, and prepare thy soul with three-card monte" "Ay, señorita, but thou art cruel! The Splendid Idle Forties Stories of Old California As in the game of three-card monte, it appears impossible to tell in what order the three will turn up—was, is and will be, lose their special significance. Four-Dimensional Vistas So is bridge, and stud poker, and three-card monte, and flim-flam generally. A Gentleman from Mississippi But if you want to tear yourself away from the house and go somewhere with friends to play three-card monte, or have a game of handball—don't think of such a thing! Plays "Rattlesnake Jack" was about the last man I worked with as a partner playing three-card monte. Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi I says: 'See here, pardner, don't you go givin' no money to no Mexican, because he'll only gamble it away on three-card monte.' The Long Chance This Saturday night there had been no dance, and the men at Gentleman Jack's table at Stinson's had played "three-card monte" on through the dawn and the sunrise, and into broad daylight. Down the Mother Lode He lost here, and so found himself at the table presided over by the three-card monte men. The Riverman We went to my room, and I showed him the old three-card monte racket. Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi My friend said, "Why, Devol, he has been playing three-card monte." Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi On this trip I met a man by the name of Rollins, who was the first man I ever saw playing three-card monte. Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi Ten Owen County yahoos had been beaten at three-card monte. Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi |
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