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Mar 19, 2020
This week’s themeReduplicatives
This week’s words
razzle-dazzle
hobnob
artsy-fartsy
flimflam
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PRONUNCIATION:
(FLIM-flam) 
MEANING:
| noun: | 1. Nonsense. |
| 2. Deception. | |
| verb tr.: | 1. To deceive. |
| 2. To swindle. |
ETYMOLOGY:
A reduplication, probably of the Old Norse flim (mockery). Earliest documented use: 1538.
USAGE:
“James Stewart, a business columnist for The Times, noted that Citigroup’s flimflam made ‘Goldman Sachs mortgage traders look like Boy Scouts.’”
Thomas Friedman; Did You Hear the One About the Bankers?; The New York Times; Oct 29, 2011.
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Thomas Friedman; Did You Hear the One About the Bankers?; The New York Times; Oct 29, 2011.
See more usage examples of flimflam in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary.
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism. -Earl Warren, Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court (19 Mar 1891-1974)
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