shell game

贝壳游戏,炮弹游戏,壳游戏,空壳游戏

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : a sleight-of-hand swindling game resembling thimblerig but employing walnut shells or the like instead of thimblelike cups.
- : any deceit, swindle, fraud, or the like.

nounconfidence game

Synonyms

It’s just this shell game of information about how our system is operating.
No one has been a bigger perpetrator of this shell game lie than Emmert.
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.
When the game starts, there is only sand, a white ball, a flag indicating hole 1, and a “0” at the top of the screen.
And to tell the truth, she couldn't help wishing he could see, so he could make the game livelier.
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.
His head fell back limp on MacRae's arm, and the rest of the message went with the game old Dutchman across the big divide.