con job

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con job

Something that swindles or deceives someone. That offer really was too good to be true—it turned out to be a con job that cost us thousands.
See also: con, job
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

con job

n. an act of deception. This is not an annual report! It’s a con job!
See also: con, job
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • easy mark
  • do (someone) out of (something)
  • do out of
  • chisel (something) out of (someone)
  • fiddle (someone) out of (something)
  • slip something over on (one)
  • chisel out of
  • chiseled
  • chisel
  • chisel (one) out of (something)
References in periodicals archive
This is quite a sophisticated, and effective, con job; and with insurance reform bills pending in a number of state legislatures, the public's only hope is that enough voters see through it.
Exposure of Johnson's vacuous Brexit con job and staged photos to cover up a police call to his home are the desperation of a charlatan.
He has denied the charges in court but claimed during questioning at the Public Prosecution that while living in Dubai he stumbled upon the con job through WeChat, a Chinese messaging, social media and mobile payment application.
There was No Collusion and in fact the Phony Dossier was a Con Job that was paid for by Crooked Hillary and the DNC.
Daniels sued Trump in April after he said a composite sketch of a man she said threatened her in 2011 to keep quiet about an alleged affair with the real estate mogul was a "con job."
The case was separate from a defamation lawsuit filed by Daniels against Trump in the same court over a tweet that called her to claim a man threatening her in 2011 about going public with the alleged affair a "total con job."
In a tweet Trump described her claim as a "total con job."
Greenpeace spokesperson Ben Stewart said: "Trump calls climate change a 'con job' and a 'myth'.
DFA officials may not have heard these rumors spreading on the ground, so whose con job is it?
CON JOB Conor McAleny celebrates putting Wigan ahead at their promotion rivals
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A witness who was used to pull off the con job said he came across a newspaper advertisement when he was searching for a job.
But before he turns over a new leaf Shiva decides to carry out one last con job.
Anti-sleaze campaigner Lib Dem Norman Baker added: "It's the usual Tory con job. They claim everything they can get for themselves while asking everyone else to make sacrifices."