Its opponents argue that this is a fantasy, and a con trick, designed to mislead.
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"If the Parliament did not mean it, then it is guilty of the most egregious con trick on the British people," Mrs.
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He said the Irish backstop was a "con trick" and added that farmers and businesses should be totally relaxed about a no-deal Brexit.
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The DUP's Wilson told BBC radio that the Irish backstop was a "con trick" and added that farmers and businesses should be totally relaxed about a no-deal Brexit.
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The assertion that the world is complicated is but a con-trick to befuddle honest Americans who wonder why their country seems less feared by enemies and less respected by allies.
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But "Trumbo" is too slow and portentous to deliver as the snappy, satirical con-trick caper it sometimes promises to become, and yet it is too shiny and artificial to convince as a heavyweight historical drama.
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The next day, plummeting back hundreds of miles south on a sweaty Megabus with cheap booze leaking out my forehead, I could only conclude that clubbing —all clubbing— was a monumental con-trick perpetually played out against people like me in girls jeans with shit Albert Hammond Jnr clone hair.
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Chakrabortty, A and Robinson-Tillett, S The truth about gentrification: regeneration or con trick?. The redevelopment was originally marketed as "Woodberry Park", but the original name was reinstated after protests.
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She left after it was revealed that the charity was actually a con-trick, and that she had knowing conned Knight. She returned to the production in late 2015. Dunn accepting a cheque for Mencap.
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In the early 1970s, talk of the school turning comprehensive grew stronger, against the wishes of some of the teaching establishment. Headmaster Mr Cox's last famous speech was headlined "comprehensive is the con-trick of the century".
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Man on the Flying Trapeze: The Life and Times of W. C. Fields. New York: W. W. Norton. pp. 244, 273. . The "army game" in the title is in reference to a shell game, a con-trick which Fields’ character observes being played.
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Players: Con Men, Hustlers, Gamblers and Scam Artists. New York: Thunder's Mouth Press, 2002. (pg. 129, 131) He, like Waddell, was credited with having invented the "gold brick swindle". A classic con trick, he made at least $500,000 using this swindle during a five-month period at the Columbian Exposition of 1893Johnson, Curt and R. Craig Sautter.
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Synonyms include con, confidence game, confidence scheme, ripoff, scam, and stratagem. The perpetrator of a confidence trick (or "con trick") is often referred to as a confidence (or "con") man, con-artist, or a "grifter". Samuel Thompson (1821–1856) was the original "confidence man". Thompson was a clumsy swindler who asked his victims to express confidence in him by giving him money or their watch rather than gaining their confidence in a more nuanced way.
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The football community was stunned by the trade; its likes had never been seen and the debate was on as to who had the best end of the deal. A large group of irate Richmond supporters vented their emotion in an angry scene at the club's AGM. As one of the most popular players at Punt Road, Barrot was still performing on-field and he admitted to heartbreak when told that he had effectively been sacked. Barrot was the younger man and it was felt that St Kilda had pulled a great con trick on the Tigers.
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Linda Grant suffered accusations of plagiarism following her award in 2000, while the following year, a panel of male critics produced their own shortlist and heavily criticised the genuine shortlist. Though full of praise for the winner of the 2007 prize, the chair of the judging panel Muriel Gray decried the fact that the shortlist had to be whittled down from "a lot of dross", while former editor of The Times Simon Jenkins called it "sexist". In 2008, writer Tim Lott called the award "a sexist con-trick" and said, "the Orange Prize is sexist and discriminatory, and it should be shunned". No woman has won the award more than once but Margaret Atwood has been nominated three times without a win.
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The presiding judge, Mr Justice Harman, said "The matter may be based on a genuine belief by Mr Trull in the privileges of Cornish tin miners but has all the appearance of being a con trick.""Tin mining 'conman' is jailed for six months", The Times, 13 October 1990 On 22 February 1991, Trull appeared before the High Court, and his sentence was reduced to three months and suspended for two years, on the condition that he undertook to help the Department of Trade and Industry recover the money invested by the public. Trull's counsel told the court that the money had gone to "the sharks of this world" and that Trull was "fired not by dishonesty, but by obsessive belief in the Stannary laws"."Jail term suspended", The Times, 23 February 1991"Cornish tin men's reluctant farewell".
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Blackadder: Back & Forth was originally shown in the Millennium Dome in 2000, followed by a screening on Sky One in the same year (and later on BBC1). It is set on the turn of the millennium, and features Lord Blackadder placing a bet with his friends – modern versions of Queenie (Miranda Richardson), Melchett (Stephen Fry), George (Hugh Laurie) and Darling (Tim McInnerny) – that he has built a working time machine. While this is intended as a clever con trick, the machine surprisingly works, sending Blackadder and Baldrick back to the Cretaceous period, where they manage to cause the extinction of the dinosaurs through the use of Baldrick's best-worst-and-only pair of underpants as a weapon against a hungry T. Rex. Finding that Baldrick has forgotten to write dates on the machine's dials, the rest of the film follows their attempts to find their way back to 1999, often creating huge historical anomalies in the process that must be corrected before the end.
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