shell game
Example Sentences
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If you see anyone playing three-card monte or a shell game, just keep walking.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 28, 2023
"Your assets can be moved around in whatever shell game Binance prefers. And in the end, whenever everything crashes you're last in line," Stark told Reuters.
From Reuters • Jun. 6, 2023
An unreliable narrator is an invitation to a shell game.
From New York Times • May 16, 2023
"A shell game to conceal who you really are."
From Salon • Feb. 27, 2023
It was a shell game with no actual pea under the rapidly moving cups.
From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray
