flim flam
Deceitful nonsense talk
Flimflam is deceptive nonsense or a confidence trick—something designed to fool or swindle: Don't fall for that flimflam.
As a verb, to flimflam someone is to cheat them through trickery: He flimflammed investors out of thousands.
The word suggests theatrical deception rather than sophisticated fraud.
Also spelled flim-flam.
- swindleDeception for financial gain
- con artistProfessional fraud perpetrator
- deceiveCause false belief
- trickeryDeliberate deception or fraud
- scamDishonest money-making scheme
bait and switch · bamboozle · confidence game · bunkum · charlatan · deception · chicanery · smoke and mirrors · mountebank · three-card monte · fleecing · ruse · imposture · hoax · tall tale · huckster · snake oil salesman · con
flim flamstraight talk
Honest, direct communication
truthfulness · honesty · straight dealing · candor · sincerity
flim flamsubstance
Physical material with mass
the real thing · legitimacy · truth · fact · hard facts
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