| 单词 | flim-flam |
| 例句 | And it falls, of course, to Boyd Crowder, infinite font of flourish and flim-flam, to give the last, best benediction to Justified and its love of lingo. Justified Watch: It Beats Angry 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z Only then, when he has excoriated all of the "flim-flam" and removed the "fat off of the bones," does he believe that the song is once and truly written. "The Convincer" still holds up for Nick Lowe's toughest critic — himself 2021-09-25T04:00:00Z Fond of foil, flim-flam, a marina drama, an alarm, a fail. Style Invitational Week 1374: ‘Versus’ verses 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z “These two flim-flam artists and their phony entourage lived large for several weeks by scamming hospitality providers,” Estes said. Wu-Tang Clan imposter gets prison for cheating hotels, limos 2021-04-30T04:00:00Z To me at least, this flim-flam is pulp at its finest. More than 125 years after his last crime, Jack the Ripper remains a mystery 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z It is above all serious, and tries to stay away from the flim-flam of artworld tourism and junketing. Documenta 13: Mysteries in the mountain of mud 2012-06-11T17:53:51Z According to the complaint, he asked Farranto, who was a Waffle House waitress, if she was the “waffle woman” who liked to sue people and called her a “scam flim-flam artist.” Alabama judge censured after cursing, threatening defendant 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z "These two flim-flam artists and their phony entourage lived large for several weeks by scamming hospitality providers," Estes said. Wu-Tang Clan imposter gets 100 months in prison for cheating hotels, limos 2021-04-30T04:00:00Z And so while Lindbergh eventually had to concede reality, Trump will never quit believing he can flim-flam his way through this crisis, no matter how many corpses pile up in his wake. Trump, you're no FDR or Winston Churchill — but you're a lot like Charles Lindbergh 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z “The president is trying to do every flim-flam, shim-sham action to distract from the fact that he is down 12 points in some places,” he said. Biden gives Republicans ammo on acuity question 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z Salon, Holden noted, called Trump's hope in the new treatment his "most dangerous flim-flam: False hope and quack advice." Hydroxychloroquine helped save coronavirus patients, study shows; Trump campaign hails 'fantastic news' 2020-07-03T04:00:00Z The virus is impervious to the flim-flam man with the hair that's now orange, now blonde, now gray and then back to orange. Virus as metaphor: The scourge that stopped the world 2020-04-18T04:00:00Z Salon, he noted, called Trump's hope in the new treatment his "most dangerous flim-flam: False hope and quack advice." After mocking Trump for promoting hydroxychloroquine, journalists acknowledge it might treat coronavirus 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z This flim-flam man had led me to believe he was an affluent farmer and property developer. After falling for a con artist, I lost trust in the world – but I am anything but a damaged soul 2019-07-17T04:00:00Z He is a shameless flim-flam man with practically no regard for the truth or the quaint notion that wealthy people like him have a civic duty to pay their fair share of taxes. The Trump Family’s Tax Dodging Is Symptomatic of a Larger Problem 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z Legislators can help by not addressing challenges involving their constitutional obligations with flim-flam rhetoric and shell games. Recent editorials from Texas newspapers 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z In her novels, he wrote, her voice, “that moonstone-and-rhinestone mix of opulence and flim-flam, can be exhausting. In her stories, she can dazzle and swoop, and quit while she’s ahead.” Angela Carter’s Feminist Mythology 2017-03-05T05:00:00Z The nation our allies looked to as the guarantor of global security will now be led by a pathologically dishonest, unqualified, inexperienced, temperamental, ignorant flim-flam man. A nation gone wrong in a world gone crazy: A first reckoning with how the hell this happened 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z The flim-flam man was also a showman, and he spoke very fast, and never allowed his listeners to finish a sentence or question. What’s Missing in Dr. Oz’s TV Exam Room 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z Sure cable "news" executives might shy away from theirs being the network to not carry him live, but I bet they'd make up for it in viewers interested in truth rather than Trump flim-flam. Make the Media Great Again 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z Stieglitz wrote that Strand's pictures were "Devoid of all flim-flam; devoid of trickery and of any 'ism,' devoid of any attempt to mystify." Photographic pioneer Paul Strand on show - BBC News 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z Dreams mattered to people, and far from being flim-flam, they related to lives and livelihoods. Viewpoint: Why don't people talk about their dreams? - BBC News 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z The challenge is to stimulate real economic growth, with real products and services for real people, not just finger-pointing and financial flim-flam and gimmickry. Does Donald Trump Have A Point? 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z Some would dismiss this all as irrelevant flim-flam and worry instead about their own nation's concerns. Could the EU fall apart completely? - BBC News 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z He certainly bore himself with the simple grace of a true aristocrat, and this simplicity carried through into his performances on stage, contrasting oddly with all the surrounding flim-flam. BB King (1925-2015): a true blues aristocrat 2015-05-16T04:00:00Z When it comes to the ongoing debate about creating and protecting US jobs, that villain has varied over the years: Japan Inc. industrialists, dot-com flim-flam men, free-trade fanatics, the offshore menace, the Wall Street 1%. OracleVoice: Fear Not The Job-Destroying Robots 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z George W. Bush may not have been a well-spoken flim-flam man, but not only did he take a graduate degree at Harvard but was trusted with running a billion-dollar business before entering politics. No College Degree? Maybe You Can Still Be President 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z They’d rather line the pockets of a cynical right-wing flim-flam artist than pay the bills for the military, the roads, the untainted meat and the police protection they all enjoy. Wingnut scams the troops: How Tea Party quack uses fake charities to get rich 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z Criticizing GOP flim-flam on poverty shouldn’t obscure the fact that the War on Poverty didn’t do all that its sponsors hoped. Meet the poverty liars: GOP peddles more garbage in war on the poor 2014-01-08T15:44:00Z It’s bad enough that regular investors will now be subject to the flim-flam tactics of hedge fund managears. How Hedge Funds Transfer Wealth From Investors To Managers 2013-05-28T15:29:32Z It was around then, of course, that the authorities insisted on introducing that monstrous carbuncle on the grand old game, the epitome of gimmickry flim-flam, a third stump. Is this a golden age for cricket writing? 2013-03-12T14:48:49Z Apparently, this Hungarian flim-flam victimized 36 folks to the tune of some $550,102.50. Hungarian Bonnie And Clyde Without Guns Hit Bank Of America And eBay 2013-03-11T15:57:53Z Although he spent nearly all of his career as an analyst, Brennan will recognize a flim-flam operation when he sees one. National Security: What Awaits John Brennan at the CIA 2013-01-09T13:35:31Z No, just a skilled nuts-and-bolts operator who doesn't waste time on visionary flim-flam. UK must champion aviation industry if it wants control of the skies 2012-10-13T23:06:58Z The fact that this flim-flam does not inspire more outrage is yet another sign of the bankrupt politics of the United States. Who really pays taxes? 2012-08-28T18:00:00Z For "none of your scatterbrained, romantical flim-flam for me," said he. Lawrence Clavering 2012-02-01T03:00:11.667Z As the other traveling salesmen say of the flim-flam artist Harold Hill in the opening scene of “The Music Man,” the FCC doesn’t know the territory. FCC Mandates Data Roaming, But They (Still) Don't Know the Territory 2011-05-05T07:49:47Z In the old days, the flim-flam might have been in front of a bank, or grocery store, where you met the person, where the beginnings of the crime took place. In Pursuit of Killer, Police Mine Online Clues 2011-05-02T03:56:15Z The flim-flam man was about to receive the countryman’s money when Leo stepped up. Leo the Circus Boy 2011-04-12T02:00:28.110Z One thing at least was clear; he would not again tell me—or even pretend to me—that her power was "all flim-flam." The Great Miss Driver "Keep your eyes on the pan!" cried the witch, waving empty hands in the air all about the pan and taboret, to show that there was "no flim-flam," as the boys called it. The Corner House Girls in a Play How they rehearsed, how they acted, and what the play brought in Henry Devereux, if you try to cheat me out of my rightful property 297 by any such flim-flam as this, I ... Rope Nobody knows that any better than I. He lied to me and tried to flim-flam me out of my boats before my dad was buried a week. El Diablo A “flim-flam worker,” as such criminals around a circus are called, was trying to swindle a countryman out of twenty dollars. Leo the Circus Boy 2011-04-12T02:00:28.110Z Even if you get hold of something good, them dam-robber government sharks will flim-flam you out of it. The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance And me trying to flim-flam myself into thinking that I've got to keep still because I promised Tom. Tom Slade with the Colors Well! all that is nothing but flim-flam, veneer, outside show, and if the marquis needed a hundred sous, no one would loan them to him on his worldly possessions. The Nabob, Volume 1 What's the use of buying tinsel and flim-flam when you're eating milk gravy to save butter and using salt sacks for handkerchiefs? Christmas A Story We were prowling around the jewelry haunts, Grace and I, seeing what she could flim-flam me into buying for her, when we ran across this thing. John Henry Smith A Humorous Romance of Outdoor Life Gaydon has a great deal of observation and common sense, and was never plagued with a flim-flam of fancies. Clementina The other sergeants were accustomed to flim-flam Lizzie to a finish on the selection of billets, with the result that C company usually slept in pigpens of stables. A Yankee in the Trenches I can remember a long tale of a man in the moon, With such a circumstance and such flim-flam? A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2 So is bridge, and stud poker, and three-card monte, and flim-flam generally. A Gentleman from Mississippi "Have the ticket men and the entrance attendants been working a flim-flam game on us?" Joe Strong the Boy Fire-Eater The Most Dangerous Performance on Record It is wonderful how very simple it is to flim-flam a philosopher. 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