Similar words: snake, rat snake, rattlesnake, snake charmer, snake in the grass, a snake in the grass, snaky, crude oil. Meaning: n. 1. (medicine) any of various liquids sold as medicine (as by a travelling medicine show) but medically worthless 2. communication (written or spoken) intended to deceive.
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1) Perhaps, when the shouting from snake oil salesmen subsides, our leaders will find a way to forge a bipartisan solution.
2) They'll react as if you're selling snake oil.
3) Optimizers are nothing but snake oil.
4) Selling need not be about snake oil and ripping people off.
5) The term snake oil comes from the 19th-century American practice of selling cure-all elixirs in traveling medicine shows.
6) Ryan:Sounds like snake oil to me. Ugh, and it smells terrible.
7) In any case, some of the financial snake oil peddled at the height of the housing bubble was bad for saving.
8) That's why the snake oil salesmen are so "successful" ... they capitalize on the feelings of inadequacies that other people have. I think that's horrible.
9) To the shame and chagrin of the snake oil pedlars, science has been of no help in supporting any of these claims.
10) Once while performing at the Riviera Hotel in Las Vegas, he was presenting a "pitchman act, " playing the role of a "snake oil" salesman from the wild west.
11) Where there is desperation, snake oil salesman cannot be far behind.
12) That's why the snake oil salesmen are so "successful" ... they capitalize on the feelings of inadequacies that other people have.
13) But there's going to be a lot of snake oil on the market in the decades, if not centuries,[http://sentencedict.com/snake oil.html] before we can come up with any more solid prescriptions to save our highest creative selves from brain rot.
14) But Mr. McCain is selling the same old snake oil, claiming that deregulation and tax cuts cure all ills.
15) For all his odd and scary views, Buchanan has played the fear card like a snake oil salesman hawking eternal life.
16) We still fall for the same logical traps, the same wacky ideas, the same old discredited snake oil in shiny new bottles that plagued our forefathers—and their forefathers.
17) Even Nixon, bowing to re-election necessity, proclaimed us all Keynesians while attempting to control the inflation he unleashed with the snake oil of price controls.
18) All of these things act to remove any type of protective coating, whether it's a high quality protectant or an inexpensive snake oil.
19) After washing your face, take proper amount of this product to apply on face; rub the skin until it is absorbed completely. It works even better when using together with Snake Oil Moisture Essence.
20) The term" professor" has been attached to bartenders, magicians and snake oil salesman, as well as academics.
21) Nor am I going to talk about what I think are obvious statements from my first book, Silicon Snake Oil, or my second book, nor am I going to talk about why I believe computers don't belong in schools.
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