a shell game

常见例句

It is a Shell game, " he said.
这是壳牌石油的诡计。
There's always someone out there crying bubble, it seems; the trick is figuring out when it's easy money—and when it's a shell game.
总是有一些人从泡沫中逃离，诀窍很简单：就是赚钱易如反掌的时候，因为这就是一个骗局。
In a way, I'm suggesting that you engage in a shell game, where the time to start the application is moved around but the total is still the same.
作为一种手段，我建议您开发一个 shell 游戏，它的启动时间可以有所浮动但是总和保持相同。

College admissions ( as Ross Douthat suggests) is a shell game concocted to perpetuate elite privilege.
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Smelling a shell game--and a deeper pocket--some of the lawsuits named the successor firm as a defendant.
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Accounting for further economic losses, however, is more of a shell game: Did those extra losses result from the wind, the flood or the government?
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