smoke and mirrors
Example Sentences
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He accused a minority of peers of deliberate time-wasting, and urged them to "stop all this smoke and mirrors and focus on making the bill better".
From BBC • Feb. 26, 2026
Gabriel could have come across as a mere cipher in this environment, a faceless spook navigating smoke and mirrors.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 12, 2025
"Neuralink is currently just smoke and mirrors, with a lot of hype," Herve Chneiweiss, a neurologist and expert in ethics at France's research organisation INSERM, told AFP.
From Barron's • Nov. 12, 2025
The pay package is replete with smoke and mirrors, its benchmarks painstakingly tweaked to make them much more achievable than they appear on the surface.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 16, 2025
But maybe being able to say “I love you” was just smoke and mirrors compared to having a living being under your fingers.
From "Endangered" by Eliot Schrefer
