| 单词 | con talk |
| 释义 | > as lemmascon talk 2. = confidence n. 10. Used attributively in con game, con man, con talk, etc. (Also elliptical). Originally U.S. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > defrauding or swindling > [noun] > confidence trick confidence trick (game, etc.)1849 con1889 the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > defrauder or swindler > [noun] > confidence trickster magsman1822 confidence man1849 con artist1878 con man1889 T.B.1912 payoff man1927 pay-off1928 samfie1929 1889 Portland (Oregon) Mercury 29 June 1/7 It does not take an unsophisticated countryman to get swindled by the ‘con man’. 1896 G. Ade Artie i. 5 He was..puttin' up the large juicy con talk. 1896 G. Ade Artie i. 8 Not that I'm strong on the con talk. 1896 G. Ade Artie xiv. 131 If they wanted me to be president o' the whole shootin' match, I'd..grow some side-whiskers and put up as tall a con game as that old stiff we've got there now. 1901 ‘J. Flynt’ World of Graft 100 ‘It's mine,’ I said... ‘They took the con.’ 1902 L. Mead How Words Grow (1907) 165 ‘A con’ is an abbreviation of confidence man. 1903 N.Y. Sun 30 Nov. 7 Two sailors say he worked the ‘con’ game on them. 1911 H. Quick Yellowstone Nights xii. 318 The cinnersure of the eye of every sure-thing or con-man on South Halsted street. 1925 E. Wallace King by Night xxxvi. 162 A burglar is a burglar, and never goes in for the ‘con’ game. 1928 E. Wallace Gunner ii. 24 Sam Larber, the con. man. 1928 F. N. Hart Bellamy Trial iii. 87 The stuff of which con men and race-track touts..are made. 1928 E. Wallace Gunner xxviii. 224 He's never done anything except con. work. 1935 W. H. Auden & C. Isherwood Dog beneath Skin i. 33 From con-man and coiner protect and bless. 1940 D. W. Maurer (title) The Big Con. 1951 J. B. Priestley Festival at Farbridge ii. ii. 310 You're a little gang of crooks, con types living on your wits. 1960 Observer 25 Dec. 7/6 Various petty fiddles and con games to which Christmas trading lent itself. 1961 J. Wain Weep before God 23 I could forgive Even the worst, the con. men who harangue Their fellow artists. 1967 Listener 21 Dec. 821/1 The intellectual theoreticians of visual pop culture have succeeded..in pulling a con. < as lemmas |
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