English to French Meaning of flimflam - flimflam


Flimflam :
flimflam

stratégie, tour, dispositif, stratagème

se montrer plus malin, battage médiatique, Jongler, Tricher, circonvenir

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Definitions of flimflam in English
Noun(1) a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property
Examples of flimflam in English
(1) The only justification for this bipartisan legislative flimflam is that a prescription-drug benefit needs a certain number of holes to come in at a mandated 10-year cost of $400 billion.(2) His career rose on a chic, combustible mix of obtuseness and literary flimflam .(3) The trailer is also a nice, atmospheric flimflam , selling the film's terror while, surprisingly, avoiding all its tedium.(4) Therefore, thanks to this budgetary flimflam , that has been going on for some time, one part of the government can't even certify what the right numbers are.(5) ‘We want footie, not flimflam ,’ screams one headline.(6) Let's start with the fact that none of the flimflam men behind the high-level financial swindles will have to do any time behind bars.(7) They engaged in financial flimflam on an even larger scale in pushing through its record tax cut for the wealthy.(8) I suppose that you suspect me of pseudointellectual flimflam(9) They are warned that, eventually, the Court will recommend that the District Attorney open up a new file to investigate this obvious financial flimflam .(10) If not, it's farewell to this flimflam fellow and his faux fortune.(11) It won't be long before you'll see commercials and ads for ‘miracle’ fuel boosters and other such flimflam promising to help you save fuel and money.(12) The most disturbing lesson is that it is not too difficult to flimflam the public on the most consequential matter there is.(13) No flimflam , just straight down to business on the Middle East.(14) His parents are putting his little sister to bed with the usual Christmas Eve flimflam about Santa not coming to awake children.(15) pseudo-intellectual flimflam(16) Before science took over the healing arts and focused physicians' attention on biological causes of disease, mystics and alchemists and flimflam artists alike offered potions and powders to the ailing.
Related Phrases of flimflam
(1) flimflam ::
flimflam
(2) flam ::
Flam
Synonyms
Noun
1. con ::
escroquerie
2. sting ::
piquer
3. bunco ::
bunco
4. confidence game ::
jeu de confiance
5. hustle ::
bousculer
6. confidence trick ::
abus de confiance
8. gyp ::
dérouiller
9. con game ::
jeu con
Verb
10. fob ::
gousset
11. pull a fast one on ::
tirer un rapide sur un
12. trick ::
tour
13. play tricks ::
faire des farces
14. play a joke on ::
une blague sur
15. play a trick on ::
Jouer un tour sur
16. fox ::
Renard
Different Forms
flimflam, flimflams
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