snow job

American  

noun

Slang.

1. an attempt to deceive or persuade by using flattery or exaggeration.

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snow job British  

noun

1. slang an instance of deceiving or overwhelming someone with elaborate often insincere talk

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snow job Idioms  

1. An effort to deceive, persuade, or overwhelm with insincere talk. For example, Peter tried to give the officer a snow job about an emergency at the hospital but he got a speeding ticket all the same. This slangy expression, originating in the military during World War II, presumably alludes to the idiom snow under.

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Etymology

Origin of snow job

First recorded in 1940–45

Example Sentences

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snow job

I want a ‘bark-off’ study — no snow job — on my desk in two weeks as to what the reason for the failure is.”

From Washington Post ● Oct. 11, 2015

Lumumba repeated his snow job with some added embellishments.

From Time Magazine Archive

Birmingham, Ala. Sir: Man, we just love that snow job article about the poets and jazzmen in San Francisco but don't dig the poem about the "bright-headed bird."

From Time Magazine Archive

Commenting on the Nixon budget, New Mexico Senator Joseph Montoya observed that Sampson must have experienced "quite a snow job" when he drew up those figures in a conference with Nixon aides at San Clemente.

From Time Magazine Archive

Fredericks knew enough of general psi theory to know when somebody was handing him a snow job.

From Sight Gag by Janifer, Laurence M.