confidence game

In both of those cases, a woman is drawn into a confidence game.

Am I the only one confused at the strange confidence game everyone is playing?

He sat back in the saddle, accepting her confidence game.

The man wondered if Jackson was trying to rook him with a confidence game of his own.

"There was a police lieutenant talking on television the other day about confidence games," said Pete.

She reminded me of someone running a confidence game."

Doll and company decide to set up a confidence game, what was then called "coney-catching."

It isn't likely the town marshal would call in the Rangers for a simple confidence game, he's not that important.

He failed to convince the officials, who also suspected trickery or a confidence game.

"I am playing a kind of confidence game.

"Just play the confidence game, and we will."

"He made his mistake, however, when he tried to fool me with a confidence game.

But what those in that London courtroom seem not to realize is that the novel has always been a confidence game.

With Madonna, it is the confidence game of Hollywood.

His was the first playing on a colossal scale of the now worn-out "get rich quick" confidence game.

The film tells the story of an elaborate confidence game, known as the Spanish Prisoner.

When Hartzell realized the deal was a confidence game, he decided to use it to his own advantage.

In gambling and confidence games, some people develop a nervous habit which gives away the fact that they're bluffing.

It started out nasty enough- ten people disappeared and it looked like a murderous confidence game.

Confidence games, after all, are seductions that operate on promises of delayed gratification.

"It is all a confidence game for him, and he got going early and he played a good game."

"It is a confidence game in the old sense of the word 'confidence,' " she says.

For years he ran what amounted to an international confidence game, borrowing more and more, covering up his accounts.

Respectable cosmic thought, detached from its sources, has sunk to the level of a gossipy confidence game.

IN a financial world rife with conflicts and confidence games, the mutual fund industry holds itself out as a haven for investors.