snow job

snow job
noun
a long and elaborate misrepresentation
• Hypernyms: ↑misrepresentation, ↑deceit, ↑deception

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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 snow job about the money he'd had, the cars he'd owned, the women he'd known — Prison World

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Slang.
an attempt to deceive or persuade by using flattery or exaggeration.
[1940-45]

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snow job noun (N Am sl)
An attempt to mislead, persuade or convince by means of insincere or flattering words, exaggeration, inaccurate or complex information, etc
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Main Entry: ↑snow

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snow job UK US noun [singular] mainly american very informal
a lie that you tell in order to persuade someone to do or to believe something
Thesaurus: liessynonym

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snow job,
U.S. Slang. something designed to snow under or overwhelm a person or his efforts, especially a great deal of fast, persuasive talk: »

You described [the] defense of his tax program as “sophisticated rhetoric.” I call it a snow job (Time).

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n. informal a deception or concealment of one's real motive in an attempt to flatter or persuade

we need to do a snow job on him

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noun, pl ⋯ jobs [count]
US informal : a strong effort to make someone believe something by saying things that are not true or sincere

They'd been promised a big return on their investments, but all they got was a snow job.

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ˈsnow job f7 [snow job snow jobs] noun (NAmE, informal)
an attempt to trick sb or to persuade them to support sth by telling them things that are not true, or by praising them too much

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