snow job

snow job
Synonyms and related words:
allurement, bamboozlement, befooling, blandishment, bluffing, cajolement, cajolery, calculated deception, circumvention, coaxing, conning, deceiving, deception, deceptiveness, defrauding, delusion, delusiveness, dupery, engagement, enlistment, enmeshment, ensnarement, entanglement, entrapment, exhortation, fallaciousness, fallacy, falseness, flimflam, flimflammery, fond illusion, fooling, hallucination, hoodwinking, hortation, illusion, inducement, jawboning, kidding, lobbying, mirage, outwitting, overreaching, persuasion, phantasm, preaching, preachment, putting on, sales talk, salesmanship, self-deception, selling, soft soap, solicitation, song and dance, spoofery, spoofing, suasion, subterfuge, sweet talk, swindling, trickiness, tricking, victimization, vision, wheedling, willful misconception, wishful thinking, working on

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  • snow job — n [singular] AmE informal an act of making someone believe something that is not true …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • snow job — snow ,job noun singular VERY INFORMAL a lie that you tell in order to persuade someone to do or believe something …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • snow job — snow′ job n. sts sl. an attempt to deceive or persuade through the use of flattery or exaggeration • Etymology: 1940–45, amer …   From formal English to slang

  • snow job — ☆ snow job n. Slang the act or an instance of deceiving, persuading, etc. with glib talk, flattery, etc …   English World dictionary

  • snow job — noun a long and elaborate misrepresentation • Hypernyms: ↑misrepresentation, ↑deceit, ↑deception * * * noun slang : a long involved effort at persuasion or deception with a vast amount of information or fictitious exploits he didn t talk much no… …   Useful english dictionary

  • snow job — {n.}, {slang}, {informal} 1. Insincere or exaggerated talk designed to gain the favors of someone. * /Joe gave Sue a snow job and she believed every word of it./ 2. The skillful display of technical vocabulary and prestige terminology in order to …   Dictionary of American idioms

  • snow job — {n.}, {slang}, {informal} 1. Insincere or exaggerated talk designed to gain the favors of someone. * /Joe gave Sue a snow job and she believed every word of it./ 2. The skillful display of technical vocabulary and prestige terminology in order to …   Dictionary of American idioms

  • snow job — n. (colloq.) deception, flattery to give smb. a snow job * * * [ˌsnəʊ dʒɒb] (colloq.) [ deception, flattery ] to give smb. a snow job …   Combinatory dictionary

  • snow\ job — noun slang informal 1. Insincere or exaggerated talk designed to gain the favors of someone. Joe gave Sue a snow job and she believed every word of it. 2. The skillful display of technical vocabulary and prestige terminology in order to pass… …   Словарь американских идиом

  • snow job — 1) insincere or exaggerated talk designed to gain the favors of someone His presentation at the interview was a total snow job. 2) use technical vocabulary to seem like an expert in a field The salesman gave us a snow job when he started to talk… …   Idioms and examples

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