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confidence game

信心游戏,自信游戏,自信的游戏,信心的游戏

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : 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.

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Examples

  • This is going to be the Game of Thrones of U.S. Senate races.

  • Dora is seen getting dressed as a mermaid by a cursor being manned by some omniscient game player.

  • Think of it as Game of Thrones—if you subtract the sex and violence and add drunken revelry and singing.

  • Actually, the guessing game is over; the weddings have begun, as have weird attempts to circumvent our constitutional democracy.

  • But locals there say any money deposited is thrown into an unlocked cupboard behind the tellers, hardly inspiring confidence.

  • And to tell the truth, she couldn't help wishing he could see, so he could make the game livelier.

  • With childlike confidence he follows the advice of some more or less honest dealer.

  • Jean clung to his English nurse, who played the fascinating game of pretending to eat his hand.

  • Two many-branched candelabra, holding wax lights, brilliantly illuminate the game.

  • The unhappy applicant was naturally obliged to temporarily retire from the game, at all events for that night.