smoke and mirrors
Example Sentences
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“To me, he’s the hero of that movie, not the villain, because he was trying to take something that was always smoke and mirrors and turn it into something magical and real,” he says.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 4, 2026
He accused a minority of peers of deliberate time-wasting, and urged them to "stop all this smoke and mirrors and focus on making the bill better".
From BBC • Feb. 26, 2026
"Neuralink is currently just smoke and mirrors, with a lot of hype," Herve Chneiweiss, a neurologist and expert in ethics at France's research organisation INSERM, told AFP.
From Barron's • Nov. 12, 2025
Roberts never had to prepare the smoke and mirrors required to navigate the final third of the game.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 26, 2025
But maybe being able to say “I love you” was just smoke and mirrors compared to having a living being under your fingers.
From "Endangered" by Eliot Schrefer
