shell game

1 it's amazing how intelligent people fall for that investment-fund shell game

2 As the water rose, staff played a bit of a shell game with its resources, sending some of the water to a balancing pond that’s typically used later in the treatment process and then pumped it back to the beginning of the plant for treatment.

3 And at least two of the judges on the three-judge panel appeared troubled by the prospect that the seeming discrepancy in Mr. Trump’s arguments amounted to something like a shell game.

4 Blockchain is either the most radical invention of the century or a worthless shell game.

5 Prosecutors have charged that Mr. Trump played what amounted to a shell game with dozens of boxes of presidential records and classified material that had been kept in a basement storage area after initially being placed in various areas around Mar-a-Lago, including a ballroom and a bathroom.

6 And the $120 million in bonds is something of a shell game.

7 Instead, The American Gladiators Documentary is partially an exercise in amused nostalgia and partially an industrious comedic shell game, a director chronicling his own process of trying to make a film that is complicated by his evasive primary subject.

8 And while the event has proven a lottery ticket of talent procurement for some franchises (Steelers, 49ers) through the years, for others (Jets, Buccaneers), it's been an infuriating shell game.

9 Enjoy the warped Swarm shell game, treasure Fishback’s performance and join me in waiting to see how the breadth-over-depth approach ages.

10 It's the biggest con game in the world.

这是世界上的一个大骗局。

11 Robert was the victim of a skin game.

罗伯特是一场骗局的牺牲品。

12 It is a Shell game , " he said. "

这是 壳牌 石油的诡计.

1 欺骗

falsidical deceptive beguiling fallacious duplicitous delusive colorable deceptively fraudulently deceivingly beguilingly imposturing quackishness do sell fraud cheat deception juggle bunk imposition spoof deceit trickery swindle sleight duplicity subterfuge humbug gammon falseness mystification flam skullduggery skulduggery fraudulence knavery shenanigan beguilement humbuggery hokey-pokey cozenage bamboozlement hocuspocus double-deal impose deceive jockey fudge hocus-pocus illude have job stick beat trick bite trim fool scam hype mock sting cod fiddle mislead Nick chisel hoax dupe gull victimize delude beguile hoodwink bamboozle bilk diddle bunco hocus gyp double-cross shortchange befool chouse do a snow job put over on have a game with practise on practise upon skin game act a lie play a part double cross put upon make a fool of

2 诈欺

imposturous con juggling take-in have do fraud cheat ramp scam hype fiddle juggle imposition pretense trickery swindle indirection eyewash imposture fraudulence flimflam roguery crookery jugglery dupery cozenage fakement double-deal jockey humbug finagle pluck dupe ream gold-brick chouse skin game

3 骗局

take-in bubble hoax bunco imposture mystification skullduggery skulduggery con-trick con trick skin game put-up job trick con sting deception snare fiddle put-on jiggery-pokery swizz

4 骗术

craft deception ruse hocus-pocus