snow jobnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈsnəʊ ˌdʒɒb/us/ˈsnoʊ ˌdʒɑːb/mainly US informalan attempt to persuade someone to do something, or to persuade someone that something is good or true, when it is not:
My boss did a snow job on me to get me to take on that project.
The media, once again, is giving us a snow job.
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Urging & persuading
- argumentation
- blag
- brainwash
- bring
- browbeat
- butter
- cajole
- get sth out of sb
- persuade
- persuasion
- preach
- prevail on/upon sb
- proselytize
- rush sb into (doing) sth
- sucker sb into sth
- swing
- talk sb down
- talk sb out of sth
- twist
- work on sb
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Praising insincerely or too eagerly