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snow job
noun
- an attempt to deceive or persuade by using flattery or exaggeration.
snow job
noun
- slang.an instance of deceiving or overwhelming someone with elaborate often insincere talk
Word History and Origins
Origin of snow job1
Idioms and Phrases
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 .Example Sentences
Yes, the problem for a sober-eyed culture warrior like you is that this French snow job seems to be winning over America.
They tried to pull a big snow job, saying public relations and so on and so forth, just to sort of impress me, and they did.
Fredericks knew enough of general psi theory to know when somebody was handing him a snow job.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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