shell game
Example Sentences
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"Your assets can be moved around in whatever shell game Binance prefers. And in the end, whenever everything crashes you're last in line," Stark told Reuters.
From Reuters • Jun. 6, 2023
"A shell game to conceal who you really are."
From Salon • Feb. 27, 2023
On the way down, he was proof, to those who wanted it, that crypto businesses were not much more than a shell game.
From New York Times • Dec. 28, 2022
“That is a shell game, and the special master should not indulge it.”
From Seattle Times • Nov. 14, 2022
It was a shell game with no actual pea under the rapidly moving cups.
From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray
