flim-flam

It's not just a bit of showroom flim-flam to fleece Mondeo man who fantasises about getting the red carpet treatment at Ferrari either.

A week when issues, policies and people are on the agenda instead of the usual constitutional flim-flam, party political argy-bargy and hand-wringing posturing is a refreshing change at the moment.

"The North East needs less flim-flam and more practical action."

If not itself a criminal enterprise--and Posner provides plenty of evidence to support the charge that it was just that--the Vatican Bank was run for decades as, at the very least, a willing accomplice to criminal schemes and financial flim-flam operations whose variety and complexity make the head spin.

When all of the pre-fight " 'flim-flam' and talking was done, the two met in a Birmingham ring for the first time in 1990.

YOU SAID: Anyone smell a bit of Labour flim-flam? Labour's councillor for Marske left the party and went indie.

As for Morsi's flim-flam that his government upholds democracy, social justice etc.

It's an old flim-flam worthy of the sleaziest carnival sharpies or scam artist Charles Ponzi, yet most of the punsters swallow it whole.

The discovery of a bacterium that can use arsenic instead of phosphorus to construct its DNA is 'flim-flam.' That's according to University of British Columbia microbiologist Rosie Redfield, who this summer published what she says is the final word on the controversy that has come to be known by its Twitter hashtag, #arseniclife.

He helped found CSICOP (the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal) and has written numerous books on related topics, including The Truth About Uri Geller, Flim-Flam!, and An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural.

It was such a hit that he went back to the festival with three more one-man shows, Flim-Flam, The Pete Firman Magic Show and Jokes and Tricks.

"You will need a deep distate for waffle, vagueness and platitudes and flim-flam"

The politicians will always have flim-flam solutions, and you shouldn't waste too much of your precious time and money on them.

It is a flim-flam consultation and things we have been told at this meeting should have been contained in the consultation document."