three-card trick

noun

1. a game in which players bet on which of three inverted playing cards is the queen

Example Sentences

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

What's objectionable about this film is the feeling that you've been made the target of some misdirection scam: a cinematic three-card trick.

From The Guardian