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con job
noun
- an act or instance of duping or swindling.
- an act or instance of lying or talking glibly to convince others or get one's way.
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Origin of con job1
Example Sentences
It has also become evident that the Trump administration’s effect on education has not been contingent on the existence of the Department of Education, which he pledged to shut down during his campaign, calling it “a big con job” infiltrated by “radicals, zealots and Marxists” that misused taxpayer dollars.
He also intends to dismantle the Department of Education, calling the agency “a big con job” infiltrated by “radicals, zealots, and Marxists” that misused taxpayer dollars.
McMahon’s hearing in Washington, D.C., took place the day after Trump commented that the department should be be shut down “immediately,” calling it “a big con job” based on the level of government spending on education and the nation’s overall poor results on standardized tests when compared with other countries.
Trump is building on the same con job and, with his various interviews with masculinity influencers, tapping the same audience.
The con job was, he thinks, “no more than a practical joke, really. Good clean sport.”
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