单词 | flimflam |
例句 | “Well, they ain’t naked, but they might as well be. Little purple flimflams—” “Tutus,” prompted Gilly primly, gratefully recovering from her earlier shock. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z Whatever the reason, our whole town is buried under 378 miles of paper chain, and it all started with a swastika—painted by the ultimate flimflam artist, me. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z Mark Twain’s fiction held a soft spot for the flimflam man. Our Never-Ending ‘Scam Season’ 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z As a musical, it has many negative virtues: no flimflam, no scenic excess and, mercifully, nothing resembling the deep-south blackface number from Love from Judy entitled Get Out Your Old Banjo. Daddy Long Legs – review 2012-11-07T23:00:00Z College nerds, sharkskin-suited flimflam men and “West Side Story” street toughs in high waters were well represented. Noticed: The Greaser, the 1950s Rebel, Returns to Fashion - Noticed 2011-10-19T22:55:13Z His boyish enthusiasm makes you wonder if Jaap is just another victim of his own flimflam. Review: ‘Fire in Dreamland’ Is a Parable of Love and Licorice 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z His career in flummery and flimflam was launched when he left reform school at age 14 to work as a Coney Island pitchman, then joined Dr. W.H. Review | The most shameless con artist of the Jazz Age knew that the biggest lies work best 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z Now it is a parade of corporate advertising and cross-promotional flimflam. Parades are a joy and a nightmare — and somehow still the way we celebrate in 2018 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z But, you might ask, is tweaking to achieve more realistic effects in the same category as flimflam? Art Review: ‘Faking It’ at the Met, a Photography Exhibition 2012-10-11T22:05:00Z In truth, that was a bit of Academy flimflam. Bored of blockbusters? Why Hollywood needs another Bonnie and Clyde moment 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z IT has taken us several rounds of this dance so far, and I try not to trust the flimflam man he still sometimes becomes. Modern Love: The Radiance, Then the Ashes 2011-06-09T20:54:29Z Personally, I prefer a gun and a borderline psychotic villain to a tale of two flimflams. 'Better Call Saul' Recap: Don't Worry Saul, It's All Good, Man 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z Might that statement actually be a bit of protective flimflam? Review | ‘The Professor and the Parson’ tries to make sense of a narcissistic con man who fooled nearly everyone 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z I just hope it means Kevin Sr.’s warnings are not all flimflam, because the show’s writers have made it tough for us to care too much about his relationship with his son. 'The Leftovers' Recap: Fathers and Sons, and a Wild Dog 2014-08-10T04:00:00Z This in itself was a bit of flimflam Showtime’s part: “Hope you’ll tune in next week for an interview with me,” Cheney says in the video, only to be a no-show in the premiere. Sacha Baron Cohen reveals “Who Is America?” and the answer is terrifying 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z It’s not apparent that their offering is any more flimflam than that of other brands. Chanel, TikTok and the Beauty Advent Calendar Controversy 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z Old-time hucksters and flimflam artists scarcely cared if you believed them or not. Liars, hucksters and fake news are nothing new: a history lesson in hoaxes 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z That experience has made him allergic to both audience participation and flimflam, so they had decided on a format that was closer to an interview. In ‘A Simulacrum,’ Steve Cuiffo Has Nothing Up His Sleeves 2023-06-20T04:00:00Z But a lot of his showmanship is pure flimflam, meant to dazzle his audience. Disappearing Acts: A Shelf of Missing-Person Mysteries 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z King Strang, as the press delighted in calling him, tried his hand at various roguish trades — lawyer, newspaperman, prophet, pirate, state legislator — but his true gift was for the pure flimflam of American celebrity. Meet the Man Who Spun the Media, Scammed Followers and Named Himself King 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z Sondheim has been fascinated by the Mizners since he read about Addison, an architect, and his flimflamming brother Wilson in the New Yorker back in the 1950s. ‘Road Show’: A journey into the ‘get-rich-quick’ 20th century 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z There is something in people that loves a BS artist–the rogue, the flimflam man who carries no gun but gets by on his words, on what he makes, literally, out of thin air. Better Call Saul: Portrait of the Con Artist as a Young(er) Man 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z We were, as a nation, rather partial to flimflam and fraudulence, and clearly we still are, if the amount of entertainment we now consume is any indication. Television: ‘White Collar,’ ‘Leverage’ and ‘Suits’: TV Criminals 2012-07-06T16:00:00Z His entire career was more flimflam than reality, including his stint pretending to be a successful businessman on "The Apprentice." If Jussie Smollett is a hoaxster, what do we call Donald Trump? 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z “With both of those people there is what you might call a touch of the poet. They go deep very quickly and effortlessly. It’s not flimflam,” says Branagh. Judi Dench, Ciarán Hinds savor their moments in ‘Belfast’ 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z "The Tinder Swindler," like "Love Fraud" before it and other love-'em-and-leave-'em flimflams, have a sense of proximity about them that other scam dramas lack. Is "The Tinder Swindler" one of those true crime tales that might strengthen relationships? 2022-02-06T05:00:00Z Today, they come in the forms of advertising, corporate flimflam, political propaganda, moral panics, media distortions, metrics, statistics. Perspective | A portrait of Vincent van Gogh as a tormented soul 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z When the then-president tried to flimflam him with misleading statistics at one point, Swan replied with precision, detail and follow-up. Opinion: How not to cover Donald Trump's bizarre 2024 campaign for president 2023-10-07T04:00:00Z “They were dying off,” Whitehead writes, “the old crooks and hustlers and flimflam artists, or upstate after an ill-advised scheme to cover medical bills or six months’ back pay or new teeth.” Another first from shape-shifting Colson Whitehead: A crime-novel sequel 2023-07-12T04:00:00Z But in characteristic fashion, she’s refused to acknowledge defeat, filing a lawsuit — since thrown out of court — and widely peddling false claims about voter fraud and other conspiratorial flimflam. Column: Kari Lake is a deceitful fraud. Now she'll have to defend her lies in court 2023-06-28T04:00:00Z Ignoring the feverish cryptocurrency flimflam — including from seemingly well-meaning Black influencers — in favor of historically proven low-cost index funds. Advice | Crypto is not the key to Black generational wealth 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z At the top is the GOP’s most popular figure, President Donald Trump, who has built careers in real estate, entertainment and politics on wild exaggerations, flimflam and unceasing subversion of the truth. Pence avoids speaking the truth about Trump at all costs 2023-02-21T05:00:00Z Another strand connects to the country's long history of snake oil salesmen, flimflam artists and con men. Adam Hochschild on history and the orange man: "We haven't had a figure exactly like him before" 2022-10-24T04:00:00Z "There was a lot of flimflam with him. He conned me pretty good." Covert operation? Globetrotting "con man" and "suspected spy" met with Trump at his golf resort 2022-10-11T04:00:00Z This is the language of partisan flimflam, not sober healthcare policymaking. Column: In threat to public health, Florida publishes bogus anti-vaccine 'study' 2022-10-10T04:00:00Z His delivery is so engaged with Eddie’s flimflam and high jinx, it is almost impossible to believe that he — or at least his voice — was not a player. Review | 3 great audiobooks to listen to this month 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z You can no longer flimflam an aura of general righteousness. Dove’s Latest Stand in the Virtue Wars 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z Another strand of Trump connects to the country's long history of snake oil salesmen, flimflam artists and con men who are trying to sell you a magical cure for your troubles. Adam Hochschild on history and the orange man: "We haven't had a figure exactly like him before" 2022-10-24T04:00:00Z What else would you expect from a virtuoso flimflam artist? Review | This ‘Music Man’ wins us over in sign language 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z There had been a few flimflam sales, searches for phantom titles, earnest-money payments to cabin squatters. How a family secret (or two) led a Seattle attorney to his grandfather’s Alaskan ghost town 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z As the focus of the story shifts to their dangerous flimflam, “Nightmare Alley” loses a bit of steam. Review | ‘Nightmare Alley’: The rise and fall of a con man, told in luscious, lurid detail 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z His 2024 “campaign” may be more of the same old flimflam, a way to raise money — his businesses aren’t doing so well — and keep his name in the news. Review | Sizing up the GOP’s 2024 field: Is there anyone who could beat Trump? 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z When his own territory wouldn’t accept this flimflam and went with Colorado, the counterfeit was applied to the new panhandle territory. Take it away, D.C.: Let’s give our Washington a new name 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z But in the end, he said, the former president proved to be a flimflam man who “put P.T. Barnum to shame.” Column: 'Pleasantly boring,' or how Joe Biden succeeds by not being Donald Trump 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z His sharp eye for the flimflam renews our enchantment, as in this description of a hotel lobby: Review: An Italian immigrant poker pro takes a gamble on — what else? — a Fellini-esque Vegas novel 2021-04-02T04:00:00Z It was just another Trump flimflam reality TV show, meant to prove how he was wronged, not how he wronged the country. Opinion | Trump’s Taste for Blood 2021-02-12T05:00:00Z Donald Trump's lawyers put forth such a flimflam argument to open the Senate's impeachment trial that his biggest sycophants in the right-wing media didn't even bother trying to spin in the disastrous first day. Trump's biggest Fox News cheerleaders think his impeachment lawyers are doing a terrible job 2021-02-10T05:00:00Z “Tom Collier is a fall guy for a project that is fundamentally flawed and has essentially been a flimflam operation from the very beginning,” Wood said. Alaska mining executive resigns a day after being caught on tape boasting of his ties to GOP politicians 2020-09-23T04:00:00Z Once again the man without a plan offers only flimflam. Opinion | Hurricane Laura looms, and Trump is again the man without a plan 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z The flashy graphics and sober, confident hosts embody a long tradition of television flimflam. How the Media Could Get the Election Story Wrong 2020-08-02T04:00:00Z Or flimflam at 11:30, if this goes according to form. MLB’s labor battle may be nearing an end, but it will take a while to overcome the self-inflicted damage 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z His Tassone is somehow both the real deal and a fraud, a genuine flimflam man. Review: In ‘Bad Education,’ a gripping suburban crime saga 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z With Trump using his bully pulpit to spew drivel, lies and flimflam, it's more important than ever for journalists to give voice to the experts. Here's what the press should be asking: How will we know when it's safe to come out? 2020-03-28T04:00:00Z The Astros — following the lead from Wall Street to the White House — not only decided to flimflam repeatedly, but once caught, took a “get over it” stance. Perspective | Vacate the Astros’ World Series championship. Case closed. 2020-02-23T05:00:00Z That kind of flimflam is precisely how things ought to operate. Perspective | The College Football Playoff, the least-flawed system yet, produces a gem in Ohio State-Clemson 2019-12-08T05:00:00Z The telltale sign of political flimflam is a promise to deliver all the benefits associated with a particular policy without any of the costs. Perspective | Warren’s plans to pay for government health care aren’t courageous. They’re a cop-out. 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z Each uses informational control and ideological flimflam to get lower and middle-class support for plans to expand the capital and power of the oligarchy and provide suitable rewards for political, professional, scientific, and cultural supporters. The Trump murder video is no joke: It's an encouragement to ramp up the violence 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z As more immigrants headed west, flimflam men began selling “miracle” remedies from their buckboard wagons. Legal judgments against big pharma aren’t enough. Consumers need to change their drug habits 2019-09-08T04:00:00Z And now, for around 40 percent of American voters, this obvious flimflam artist is somehow the most trustworthy man in politics. Trump's outrageous claims of voter fraud have a clear goal: Refusing to accept defeat in 2020 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z This wouldn’t be the first time Jay-Z flimflammed his adoring fans, performing as if he’s down for the cause while actually cashing in on the back end. Perspective | Jay-Z can’t say he stands with Colin Kaepernick and partner with the NFL. It’s hypocritical. 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z Barnum became one of the most celebrated men in America not despite his bigotry and duplicity, his flimflamming and self-dealing, but because of them. What P. T. Barnum Understood About America 2019-07-29T04:00:00Z Steyn charged: “And it turns out he's not a heroic presidential speaking truth to power a guy, he's just a flimflam shyster who steals from his clients.” Mark Steyn: Avenatti a 'flimflam' lawyer who will be lucky to avoid prison time 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z For starters, the comptroller confirms what those who’ve been paying attention already knew - the 2018-19 state budget now in place was a masterpiece of flimflam and gimmickry that was balanced only on paper. Excerpts from recent editorials in newspapers in Illinois 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z Headliner Norm Lewis makes up mnemonics to help him master the patter of the famed flimflam artist at the center of “The Music Man.” ‘A little chaotic and scary’: Behind the scenes as the Kennedy Center’s ‘Music Man’ comes together in two weeks 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z The current regime’s fakery and the cheap flimflam — the notion that people will buy anything — is what’s so riling. Perspective | Bruce Allen’s contempt for Redskins fans is clear — he thinks they’re buying this 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z As things worsen for Trump — legal troubles, Democrats taking the House, the wavering economy and administration chaos — he has deployed ever more flimflam. Opinion | Trump finds a cure for his small-hands problem 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z Mr. Ryan isn’t offering fresh food for thought; he’s serving up leftovers from the 1990s, drenched in flimflam sauce. So long, Republican Congress, and good riddance: It's been even worse than we expected 2018-12-24T05:00:00Z After all, I declared Paul Ryan a “flimflam man” back when all the cool kids were gushing about his courage and honesty, giving him awards for fiscal responsibility. Hard-money men, suddenly going soft 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z If you thought Trump’s flimflam about his namesake university was bad, if you cringe that Commerce and Interior are run by men accused of grifting, check out our acting attorney general. Opinion | Too Rich to Jail 2018-11-17T05:00:00Z But when the school was evicted, it simply moved to a new location and started the whole flimflam all over again. The midterm elections show America’s major shift in attitude to charter school privatization 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z At 82, the retiree-to-be returns one last time to playing a good-hearted scalawag in the mode of the Sundance Kid and the flimflam man he portrayed in “The Sting.” ‘The Old Man & the Gun’: Robert Redford rides off on a sweet, fitting note 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z Barnum and we get lies, not air and flimflam and he still gets a crowd to chant lock her up as his campaign officials and National security adviser goes to jail. How Times Journalists Uncovered the Original Source of the President’s Wealth 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z He picked up a guitar and pretended to play, and before long this bit of flimflam mutated into the formation of the Nuns, a foundational Bay Area glam-punk outfit. Alejandro Escovedo’s Return to the Border 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z “He really was a crusader against what he considered to be reputations that were built on a lot of flimflam,” said linguist Daniel Everett. Tom Wolfe: A Life in Full 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z If the president’s loyal base can be flimflammed into thinking this is all a big witch hunt, Republican lawmakers will stay in line. Opinion | Don’t be fooled. Giuliani has a strategy. 2018-05-07T04:00:00Z Retiree-to-be Robert Redford returns one last time to playing a good-hearted scalawag in the mode of the Sundance Kid and the flimflam man he portrayed in “The Sting.” ‘The Old Man & the Gun’: Robert Redford rides off on a sweet, fitting note 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z Image: Tor.com No roach ain’t never gonna run ’cross a flimflam man’s plate, excepting the grifter in question’s already got himself around the best part of his supper. Read an excerpt from Elizabeth Bear’s next steampunk adventure Stone Mad 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z Despite the seriousness of the crimes committed — a pyramid scheme that mostly targeted seniors — the film is a played-straight comic portrayal of an outrageous flimflam man and the equally exaggerated characters who surround him. What to watch with your kids: ‘Maze Runner: The Death Cure,’ ‘Trolls: The Beat Goes On!’ and more 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z The broad unpopularity of his tax cut is a sign that his flimflam has not deceived voters as to where his heart and his bank account lie. Opinion | The dam of denial has broken 2018-01-07T05:00:00Z Not far into the glossy South Korean flimflam thriller “The Swindlers,” you realize that every character is untrustworthy. Who do you trust in slick Korean thriller 'The Swindlers'? 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z The flimflam is these con artists are counting on the normal taxpayer not to know or understand how financing and business income is made, or works. Opinion | Republicans, Trapped by Their Flimflam 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z They keep falling for the same old flimflam. Pundits still fall for it: Trump does bare minimum in Texas, and suddenly he's presidential 2017-09-04T04:00:00Z Trump will discover the limits of his flimflam. Opinion | American workers will catch on to Trump’s con 2017-09-03T04:00:00Z “It’s a flimflam and it’s unseemly,” he said. Trump taxpayer-first budget proposes 3.6 trillion in cuts 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z “Fancy language, senator. I will duel you at dawn you charlatan, you mountebank, you mendacious flimflamming dissembler. Bring a pistol and a thesaurus,” he quipped. Late-night hosts on Jared Kushner: 'If anyone could drive Isis crazy, it’s a New York landlord' 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z Let Republicans own their flimflam in full, for once. Opinion | Republicans, Trapped by Their Flimflam 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z Indeed, the whole drug price drama was a flimflam right from the start. Opinion | Trump loses backbone on drug prices. Is there a pill for that? 2017-02-04T05:00:00Z Saying so is flimflam — it’s an attempt to diminish the attack’s significance. ‘An act of war’: Investigate Russian disruption of U.S. election 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z That waffling has revealed that just like Oz, Trump is little more than a humbug, a flimflam man at the end of a long con. Trump Lets the Curtain Slip 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z A story as bizarre as it is humorous, wicked and sad, “Nuts!” can be fully appreciated as an entertaining slice of American flimflam history. You don't have to be 'Nuts!' to believe the unbelievable 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z The only disagreement I have is the claim that Republicans are trapped by their flimflam. Opinion | Republicans, Trapped by Their Flimflam 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z Mr. Monteiro said Besa Mafia struck him as flimflam, so he hacked through the backdoor and stole files and hunted down the operator. ISIS duped by Besa Mafia ‘dark web’ site offering murder, mayhem for Bitcoins 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z He said that officials in WHS “flimflammed” other parts of the Defense Department into thinking that the hazard pay approved was “merely a typographical error.” In Pentagon bomb squad, an investigation and a fight to stave off financial ruin 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z Calling the allegations “tosh” and “bluster and flimflam,” Emirates’ British president, Tim Clark, promised “a very robust response” — but that would naturally require time. The rise of the aerostate: U.S. carriers scramble as Persian Gulf rivals emerge 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z But the means Philidor allegedly used to flimflam payers into actually paying its high prices appear highly suspect. Valeant: Blame Our Accounting, Please! 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z “Quantum” is surely the biggest offender, offering up some mystical scienceyness, none more so than in “quantum healing” – an unfathomable extension of reiki, which, let’s face it, is already graphene-thin flimflam. Beware the pseudo gene genies 2015-07-19T04:00:00Z There’s the knowledgeable lecturer — “You obviously do not mean that literally” — and the old man with children on his lawn — “You reject the dream itself as flimflam.” David Brooks scolds Ta-Nehisi Coates: “I think you distort history” 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z But the transgression is just the latest example of flimflam or folly from a franchise that has long lived on the outskirts of the pro football establishment. For Patriots, the Bizarre Is the Norm 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z Hypocrisy and rhetorical flimflam are standard in politics, and liberals are not the only guilty parties in the Keystone XL battle. Liberals are violating their principles on Keystone XL That’s the sort of heavyweight stuff that changes the course of men’s wear, we like to think, rather than the flimflam of the biannual catwalk circus. A Men's Wear Revolution 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z “And this is because there is no flimflam or trickery, no yellow cards. It’s a tough sport. It’s real. That is what our fans like.” Poland Embraces Football That Has a Rougher Side 2014-08-25T04:00:00Z Instead, he’s a con man, a “flimflam kind of guy,” and a thief, Mascher said. Report: Man climbed atop basketball hoop in escape 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z Baloney, bamboozles, careless thinking, flimflam, and wishes disguised as facts are not restricted to parlor magic and ambiguous advice on matters of the heart. Media Is Unreal: Bring Media Literacy into Science Literacy 2013-04-16T17:45:03.337Z Congressional hearings into this and other Estes flimflams led to the highest levels of the Kennedy administration, particularly Johnson, who had been a business associate of Mr. Estes’s in several ventures. Oscar Griffin Jr., 78, Pulitzer Prize Winner Who Brought Down Scheming Texas Tycoon, Dies 2011-12-11T02:14:12Z I tried my darndest to flimflam the information out of him, but it was no use. The Gray Phantom's Return 2011-09-22T02:00:27.150Z He flimflammed Kinzie for his first chunk of money, and after that it was easy. The Real Man 2011-07-29T02:00:28.280Z But like the flimflam men he loves to write about, the playwright disguises his intentions with so many flourishes that it’s easy for audiences not to notice what’s actually going on. | Connecticut: Mamet?s Tale of Blacks and Whites Told in Grays 2011-07-02T01:47:53Z A flimflam offer by a theologian of inchoate title to improved real estate in the Sky for real estate, rentals and cash on Earth. The Roycroft Dictionary Concocted by Ali Baba and the Bunch on Rainy Days. 2011-07-02T02:00:10.980Z An education is one of the best defenses against financial flimflam, but many students never learn the kinds of things that can help. Your Money: The Wisdom of Reading, Writing and Financial Literacy 2011-01-07T18:01:42Z Don’t be flimflammed by their 108-83 blowout victory over the Detroit Pistons on Tuesday night. Ventre: Lakers better start caring before it's too late 2011-01-05T22:16:33Z Keener men have been flimflammed by much the same formula. The Boss of Wind River 2010-12-30T03:00:28.770Z "He's serving up leftovers from the 1990s drenched in flimflam sauce." Is Wisconsin's Paul Ryan Too Bold for the GOP? 2010-09-04T07:25:00Z Sid didn't mention his own dirty linen, but he knew we knew he'd flopped badly as boss of the Place and only recouped himself by that last-minute flimflam. The Big Time Fourth, the immigrants should not be flimflammed into paying excessive prices for undeveloped land. A Stake in the Land I’m more or less of a thickhead when it comes to flossy finance; but I’ve seen enough plain flimflam games to know a few things. Odd Numbers Being Further Chronicles of Shorty McCabe "Am I to be flimflammed, after paying the money in good faith?" demanded Ruggles. Uncle Sam's Boys as Lieutenants or, Serving Old Glory as Line Officers "You flimflammed Hill out of five hundred by offering to take him across the Mexican boundary and showing him where his father could be found," said Burton, with a laugh. Owen Clancy's Happy Trail or, The Motor Wizard in California "As long as there is plenty of flimflam to distract the viewer." Toy Shop You're going to have a man from this district that will do what you say and keep on flimflamming the people. The Ramrodders A Novel Yes," answered the major as he blew a ring of smoke into the air, "yes, just about that; any kind of flimflam. Andrew the Glad It's all right to practice a little mild deception on our red brothers, as we figgered on doing, but I'm not goin' to try to flimflam the State of Texas. Pardners But you're as likely as any to be mistook on a flimflam game, such as these loafers is putting up. Burning Daylight You see, he always managed, with all his killings and robbings and general and sundry flimflamming, to be just within the law. A Deal in Wheat and Other Stories of the New and Old West All the same," he retorted, "show me a reorganization scheme and I'll show you a flimflam! Tutt and Mr. Tutt Phoebe," he called after her, "the one with the yellow fuzz is the girl, buy her for me if you can flimflam Milly into it! Andrew the Glad He was not going to be "flimflammed," no, sir! Bunch Grass A Chronicle of Life on a Cattle Ranch If it isn't sold by night to you, to-morrow those other people will come with cash in hand——" "Harris, you know," drawled Mr. Lewis, "I half believe the fellow's trying to flimflam us, you know. Boy Scouts of the Air on Lost Island I thought thou hadst been a lad of higher mettle than to give way to a parcel of maidenish tricks.——I tell thee 'tis all flimflam. History of Tom Jones, a Foundling They had been sold, victimized, flimflammed, skinned; the scorpion had stung them and the poison was boiling in their veins. Flowing Gold He's been flimflammed into believing you the greatest man in the United States. Ridgway of Montana (Story of To-Day, in Which the Hero Is Also the Villain) |
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