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单词
hocus-pocus
释义
hocus-pocus
ho‧cus-po‧cus
/
ˌhəʊkəs ˈpəʊkəs
$
ˌhoʊkəs ˈpoʊ-
/
noun
[uncountable]
Word Origin
WORD ORIGIN
hocus-pocus
Origin:
1600-1700
hax pax max Deus adimax
, a pretended Latin phrase used by people doing magic tricks
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
Corporate executives should recognize financial
hocus
-pocus by now.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
Higgledy-piggledy merges, all too easily, into
hocus
-pocus.
In fact, Smith did not rest his argument on
hocus
-pocus.
In her poor barrio, La Paca impressed some and irked others with her
hocus
-pocus and well-connected friends.
Lind's simple and logical process should have swept through medicine, brushing aside the accumulated
hocus
-pocus of centuries.
a method or belief that you think is based on false ideas
:
He thinks psychology is a load of hocus-pocus.
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