How To Use Flim-flam In A Sentence
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Only MPs believe the flim-flam from bhig Telcos on "how difficult it all is
How Cumbria's village halls are pioneering a hi-tech revolution | Rory Stewart
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It’s the worst kind of flim-flam, because it tries to cover the stench of nonsense by squirting liberal doses of scientific-smelling perfume.
Reasons to Believe (that Creationists are Crazy)
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Let artists create works exposing their flim-flams along with their names.
Philip Slater: Creating A Register of Shame For White-Collar Malefactors
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Change you can believe in" can now be filed with those other historic flim-flams: "A chicken in every pot" [Herbert Hoover, 1928], "He kept us out of war" [Woodrow Wilson, 1916], "Compassionate Conservatism" [Bush, Junior, 2000].
Obama Hits Auto Execs As "Tone Deaf," Demands "Ethic Of Responsibility" For Business Bigs
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This sentence works because it makes a reader wonder: what was the final flim-flam? what kind of person uses the term flim flam, anyway?
The Power of the First Sentence | Write to Done
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Doolittle set a devastating tone early, revealing himself to be a 97-year-old man with a vicious trifecta of antiquation, using the words “hooligans,” “flim-flam man,” and “hobnobs” in machine gun succession.
Midterm Roundup
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Much of what they say is flim-flam, and this blog aims to set the record straight.
2010 January « Motivated Grammar
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They're stock hucksters, touts, gamblers and flim-flammers.
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For the past two decades, Western governments have been confounded, hoodwinked, bambozzled, bluffed, duped, manipulated, seduced, beguiled, flim-flammed and sandbagged by a master of deception into believing that there is "no alternative in the opposition".
Alemayehu G. Mariam: J'Accuse!
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I have, as well, and have wondered whether the persistent portrayal of Obama as being left of even Clinton has flim-flammed people.
Obama: "I Don't Think There's Any Question That We Have A Mandate"
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I was reminded of the contrasting approach that Penn & Teller have used to much success, in which they tell the audience they are flim-flamming them, and then explain how they did it.
Weekend Items
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If Obama gives a speech criticizing Clinton, he's a misogynist jerk, a "ghetto hustler", who is flim-flamming and jiving the American public.
Gallup: Obama's Big Race Speech Potentially Fixing Wright Situation
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Nah, it just means that Obama will have flim-flammed the rubes with a bait-and-switch, promising a nebulous "hope" and "change" while preparing something a bit more radical.
If we're all supposed to see that Obama is a socialist, and then he wins by a landslide...
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That's what a dictionary makes of the phrase flim-flam.
Undefined
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Randi had for decades used his insider's knowledge of the flim-flam trade to humiliate a generation of occultists.
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However, the actual incidents (as opposed to the preparation and debriefing) are fewer and farther between than I surmised from reading the box cover, and their second-to-last achievement was flim-flamming a bunch of idealistic college kids who had not yet learned to think critically and skeptically.
Archive 2005-08-01
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Combe made this flim-flam popular in the United Kingdom even Queen Victoria went for it, and in 1838 he lecture-toured America where the theory was already being huckstered by brothers Lorenzo and Orson Fowler.
American Connections
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Sowho are these merchants of noise, who work so hard, and so unobtrusively to dominate our attention, while hiding their malignance behind the frenzied smiles and desperate flim-flam of others who more effectively command our loyalty, respect, admiration and even doting adoration?
Have you a radio or tv?
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Rubin, 60, sees Obama as the villain -- he genuinely doesn't like him, calling him "the most underhanded politician since Richard Nixon;" and depicting him as a kind of flim-flam man/flip-flopper (on FISA and public financing, for example) whose supporters are like "cultists.
Carol Felsenthal: Still Pushing Hard for Hillary -- for President
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I offer the following flim-flam to the examination of your readers, all of whom are, I presume, more or less, readers of Shakspeare, and far better qualified than I am to "anatomize" his writings, and "see what bred about his heart.
Notes and Queries, Number 15, February 9, 1850
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To me, he sounds like a kind of flim-flam man, and I think that's how he sounds to most working people.
Is Hillary Outperforming Obama Against McCain Among Working Class Voters In Key Swing States?
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I was afraid we were about to be flim-flammed again, as has happened so many times with the Rove Machine, and that the easily-distracted American public would get mesmerized yet again by smooth talk and fairy dust while a Democratic candidate ten times better qualified would go down in defeat AGAIN.
Deanie Mills: John McCain's Sarah Bobbitt
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Part of the [increase in estimated cost of the prescription drug plan from $400 billion to $720 billion] comes from earlier flim-flammery on the part of the Administration & congress, which projected costs from 2004-2013, even though the benefit didn't start until 2006.
Conservatives and the Bush Budget, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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A while ago that O'Reilly fellow said he was, but I got flim-flammed!
Obama Ad In Pennsylvania: He Doesn't Take Money From "Oil Company PACs Or Lobbyists"
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But I'll let Penny's and others 'commentary stand in for my own, you fail to more conscientiously engage and, in effect, that results in flim-flamming the subject matter endlessly.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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I was faked in my birth and flim-flammed with my mother's milk.
WHICH MAKE MEN REMEMBER
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Mostly though, it is good for Conservative voters to see that they have been flim-flammed by con-artists in thousand dollar suits.
Report: Senator tried to stop colleague's affair
