three-card monte

noun as in gambling game

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His three-card monte skills are storied in the neighborhood, but he’s determined to proceed down the straight and narrow.

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Yet racing, at times, plays its fatality numbers as if it were a game of three-card monte.

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But these dynamics are uncertain in a play that treats identity like a game of three-card monte.

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Just as any three-card monte con artist depends on a crowd salted with shills, political grifters use the diversionary tactics of red/blue divisions — our guy may be bad, but your guy is worse.

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Zooming out a little, the entire right-wing media infrastructure is a game of three-card monte.