flim-flam

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Some readers think my continuing attempt to expose all the lies and flim-flam and now moot.

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  • Paulson's plan is just more flim-flam intended to reflate the value of sketchy assets. —  Dandelion Salad
  • Labor, real work that contributes to the growth of the economy has to be recognized as being more honorable, more noble, and more essential, than flim-flam paper exercises that are nothing more than speculation in industries that are exporting jobs to countries where workers are paid less than $5 a day. —  Paul Soglin: Waxing America
  • MY REAL POINT: why, oh why oh why, don't doctors and scientists speak up about what they know of this flim-flam? —  Women's Space
  • It doesn't need all the overdone theatrical flim-flam, the ghost-train histrionics. —  Culture | guardian.co.uk
  • They are going early to avoid the lines and any flim-flam that happens at election sites on election day. —  WordPress.com News
 

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