| 单词 | confidence trick |
| 例句 | Public speaking, like writing, is in many ways a confidence trick. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z At the same time money is a confidence trick: an i.o.u. printed on cheap material that promises the holder nothing but more paper money. The Fiction That Makes the World Go Round 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z This is more like a horror, a deep horror: to see how this confidence trick is being played out in front of everybody. Bill Bailey: Bill's excellent adventure 2013-04-19T14:00:00Z The banking system, the preserve of ancient old men shouting at each other across marble hallways, is a farce and a confidence trick. Mary Poppins: not sugary, but sharp and subversive – on the page and the screen 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z “Before creating the show I’d read 20 books on confidence tricks,” Jordan wrote in an email. Adrian Lester Finally Arrives on Broadway, via Wall Street 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z I searched digitised newspapers for details of the cases that Whicher had investigated before Road Hill: murders, frauds, assassination plots, hoaxes, confidence tricks. Guardian book club: Kate Summerscale on The Suspicions of Mr Whicher 2013-01-11T20:00:11Z Yes, creating a fictional universe is, in many ways, a confidence trick—if the reader finds your scenario implausible, it might just indicate that you haven’t laid the narrative’s foundations convincingly enough. Salon’s author questionnaire: 7 things you didn’t know about 5 writers 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z Investigators are trying to figure out if the fraudsters research their victims or whether they are using a confidence trick. WhatsApp: Scam costs Welsh victims thousands of pounds 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z As a filial bonus, he demonstrates a confidence trick involving three coins. Review: Andrew Scott triumphs in the streaming one-man play 'Three Kings' 2020-09-06T04:00:00Z Dr Williams added: "So that's something I worry about a bit more, the idea that there are people who genuinely believe climate change is a huge confidence trick." Environment is biggest challenge - ex-archbishop 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z “I puzzle hugely about his motivation. You ask me what was fun for him. I think what was fun for him were the great confidence tricks he pulled off.” 'My ties to England have loosened': John le Carré on Britain, Boris and Brexit 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z Stewart Lee: a propagandist masquerading as a comedian, who is promoted as sophisticated and as a confidence trick to make people buy into the narrative. Stewart Lee book extract: ‘My work became increasingly angry, bitter and incoherent’ 2019-08-25T04:00:00Z He was jailed for 10 years for perpetrating a "callous confidence trick", the judge said. Fake bomb detector seller jailed again 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z But, the novel reveals, Mercer is just an elderly actor, desperate for work; the religion is a confidence trick. The Philip K Dick book I love most… 2017-08-27T04:00:00Z That implies he has some competence at confidence tricks. Trump’s lies are delusional. But the dangers they pose are now very real | Richard Wolffe 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z The trouble with the joke is that it won't work anymore even as a confidence trick because the metaphorical bridge collapsed long ago. Rebuild America 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z Central banks like the Bank of England are something of a confidence trick. Did bankers scam the bank rescue scheme? 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z James House, prosecuting, said Mr Ashrafi used "elaborate confidence tricks" and was "a vulture who preyed on people at their most vulnerable". Astrologer 'preyed on the vulnerable' 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z Lord Robert Winston, a fertility specialist and BBC presenter, insists that egg freezing is “a confidence trick” that allows greedy private fertility clinics to prey on the hopes of anxious, desperate women. How Women Are 'Freezing' The Biological Clock McCormick, 57, of Langport, Somerset perpetrated a "callous confidence trick", said the Old Bailey judge. Fake bomb detector seller jailed 2013-05-02T12:29:59Z It's only a matter of time before the latest confidence trick also falls apart. The Conservatives are much more unpopular than they realise 2013-04-27T11:00:02Z At the heart of the Kallakis confidence trick were purported financial guarantees from a large Hong Kong investor. Confidence trickster who defrauded banks out of £750m faces jail 2013-01-16T21:06:48Z This isn't the hi-tech wizardry of Hollywood but is a good, old-fashioned confidence trick. The hackers' seven deadly sins 2012-12-17T00:10:59Z This isn't the high tech wizardry of Hollywood but is a good, old-fashioned confidence trick. The hackers' seven deadly sins 2012-12-17T00:10:59Z “This report is a sham, this report is a whitewash, this report is a confidence trick dressed up as independent scrutiny and given invisible clothes of reliability,” she said. Cameron Apologizes for British Role in Finucane Killing 2012-12-13T03:41:29Z Luxury brands are the biggest confidence trick in the great panoply of modern consumerist cons. The hypocrisy of Burberry's 'Made in Britain' appeal 2012-07-16T12:15:01Z I am reliably informed that this is all a highly crafted – and risky – confidence trick. The 'Isles of Wonder' Olympic opening ceremony: I smell a rat 2012-06-14T18:19:00Z He could not explain the details to Sylvia, but he might say that it was a confidence trick on the grand scale and that it meant his residing in a northern city. The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett 2012-04-26T02:00:17.327Z Any number of sharpers who tried the confidence trick, but tried it in vain. A Gamble with Life 2012-04-11T02:00:33.587Z You must think I'm a simple-minded innocent, to come trying to play your confidence tricks off on me. Miss Arnott's Marriage 2011-11-11T03:00:33Z But the seriousness of the situation deserved more than creative accounting and confidence tricks. The Irony of the EU Deal 2011-10-28T01:46:36Z It's a regular confidence trick, for no sooner does the shock of the beneficiary's awful singing blow over, than she is back about town again. The Awful Australian 2011-08-11T02:00:14.850Z Won’t do the confidence trick again to divert the insinuating stranger.” Dorrien of Cranston 2011-07-07T02:00:31.540Z Now, you see, he’s doing the very confidence trick we were just talking about. The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier 2011-07-05T02:00:23.353Z He was the first, so far as I recollect, to play the favourite Turkish confidence trick upon us. A Prisoner in Turkey 2011-05-28T02:00:23.023Z Business now-a-days is run on the lines of the confidence trick. Three Plays by Granville-Barker The Marrying of Ann Leete; The Voysey Inheritance; Waste 2011-03-22T02:00:23.063Z Once, on furlough in London, a confidence trick was played on him, and only his natural honesty pulled him out of a ridiculous scrape. Sanders of the River 2011-03-12T03:00:26.427Z "Reeling from the national confidence trick pulled on us by the government and those they ceded power to - developers and banks." Irish parties pull out the stops 2011-02-24T14:39:32Z It is a staggering confidence trick that the Republicans are seeking to pull off. The party of the rich, by the rich, for the rich 2010-12-02T20:30:00Z It is all based on a confidence trick. Why Eric Cantona's bank protest would hurt us all 2010-11-23T14:04:00Z One is bound to ask oneself "is it a confidence trick?" Hitler's 'spyclists' 2010-03-08T09:37:00Z "I say; no room for the confidence trick here, old man," he exclaimed suspiciously. A Poached Peerage This is just a typical Home Rule argument, the confidence trick all over. Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule For instance, there is the confidence trick, in which the rustic is beguiled by the honest stranger into trusting him. The History of London We would make it the emblem of artistic deception, and the confidence trick expert should wear it as his crest. Certain Personal Matters This is the confidence trick under another form. As We Are and As We May Be I thought of the confidence trick, and resolved I would be on the alert for the vestiges of my five hundred pounds. The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories To-day I know how it is that year after year, week after week, the bunco steerer, who is the confidence trick and the card-sharper man of other climes, secures his prey. American Notes There's a man lives there whom I did out of a hundred pounds— just a little variation of the confidence trick. An Amiable Charlatan Never before has a country so justly and so richly deserved the repudiation of a debt incurred by the confidence trick. Crescent and Iron Cross It was named Alice's, presumably after the proprietor, and was on one occasion the scene of a neat version of the confidence trick. Inns and Taverns of Old London Sometimes another form of confidence trick is adopted, which is invariably successful. Following the Equator, Part 5 "It was a downright confidence trick," she burst out to the comte de Souvary, firing up afresh with the memory of her wrongs. Love, the Fiddler "I been up to the confidence trick for years ever since I was your age." The Enchanted Castle But his mother was beginning to come to the end of her tether; she had played the domestic confidence trick upon him times without number already. The Way of All Flesh "He was leading up to the confidence trick!" he said, between laughs. The Yellow Claw |
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