three-card trick
Britishnoun
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No amount of fast-talking can disguise that, no attempt at a three-card trick is going to fool a single fan at this point.
From BBC
All this comes as a reaction against the three-card trick Facebook has played on users: if you have a million followers, at best 2% of your audience will stumble across your posts, unless you pay Facebook to boost them, according to research by Ogilvy.
From The Guardian
"It was a total marketing con. If a guy on Oxford Street does a three-card trick and gets caught he gets locked up. The corporate guy doesn't. That to me is a con, a total fiasco."
From BBC
I’m the sort of person that gets taken in by the three-card trick.”
From Project Gutenberg
She was a mystery, just as a juggler or the three-card trick were mysteries, and as such she commanded respect.
From Project Gutenberg
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