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confidence game
noun
- any swindle in which the swindler, after gaining the confidence of the victim, robs the victim by cheating at a gambling game, appropriating funds entrusted for investment, or the like.
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of confidence game1
Idioms and Phrases
Also, confidence trick ; con game . A swindle in which the victim is defrauded after his or her trust has been won. For example, The police warned of a confidence game in which people were asked to turn over valuables for a so-called appraisal , or The typical confidence trick is easy to spot if you know what to look for , or I almost let myself be taken in by her con game鈥攕he seemed so sincere . These terms, which use confidence in the sense of 鈥渢rust,鈥 date from the mid-1800s. They also gave rise to confidence man (or con man) for the swindler.Example Sentences
People purchase them because they think the value will appreciate 鈥渟o obviously the confidence game will only work as long as people keep buying.鈥
It鈥檚 a confidence game, and you will lose money.
But if the banking business is ultimately a confidence game, the game ended quickly.
The British psychological thriller follows the emboldened woman down the rabbit hole of false identities and confidence 亚洲网紅露点.
鈥淭his was really an ageless, classic confidence game that has played out over modern social media,鈥 Assistant U.S.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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