con job


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con′ job`


n.
Informal.
an act or instance of duping, swindling, or persuading by deception.
[1950–55]
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He pulled off his latest con job after making contact with the woman, who was hoping to secure two tickets for her daughter and her best friend, through adverts.ie.
Con job St Andrew's isn't the most welcoming place for Aston Villa players - but that didn't deter Conor Hourihane.
He denied the charges in court, but claimed during questioning at the Public Prosecution that while living in Dubai he stumbled upon the con job through WeChat, a Chinese messaging, social media and mobile payment application.
At a rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan on March 29, Trump called the asylum process "a big, fat con job."
The Menzgold saga reminds me of the Blay Miezah con job. It is founded on the same module - a scam of gargantuan proportions.
She sued him for defamation after he dismissed her claims of being threatened to keep quiet about the tryst as a "total con job." The judge threw out the case in October.
But while branding Brexit a "con job" in his latest interview, he stated his opposition to Scottish nationalism and said he wouldn't become involved in flag-waving.
Daniels, who claims she had a sexual encounter with Trump more than a decade ago, sued the president after he tweeted in April that her story of a man threatening her at a Las Vegas parking lot to not come forward with her story of her alleged affair with him was "a total con job."
A total con job, playing the Fake News Media for Fools (but they know it)!" The ruling does not affect a separate lawsuit the actress has filed against the president over money she says she was paid by Mr Trump's lawyer, Michael Cohen, to keep quiet about the alleged affair.
"They talk about all these directors of football but it's another con job. How many players have they selected?
Dalwhinnie Place resident Morrissey's con job was eventually discovered and she owned up to the offence.