Similar words: ball game, ballgame, football game, basketball game, gilgamesh, tollgate, toll gate, bill gates. Meaning: n. a swindling sleight-of-hand game; victim guesses which of three things a pellet is under.
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1. Critics called the proposal a shell game.
2. The shell game which Dad had instigated so long ago had impoverished all three of us.
3. Life in the Lubetkin family was a perpetual shell game.
4. It was a curious shell game in which each side thought it had the upper hand.
5. It is a Shell game , " he said. "
6. The accepted wisdom is that Enron was a shell game - an unprofitable company masquerading as a profitable one.
7. The new program to help science students is just a shell game, as an older program that helps more students is being cut.
8. The middle class will soon enough tumble to the fact that it is the sucker in Forbes's shell game.
9. In a way, I'm suggesting that you engage in a shell game, where the time to start the application is moved around but the total is still the same.
10. To some extent, this shuffling of debt is a bit of an accounting shell game, says Michael Kurtz, head of China research for Macquarie Securities, an investment bank.
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11. We were looking at buying their subsidiary company but when we investigated it we found out that they were playing a shell game with their income figures.
12. Some cheat that the contact lenses in a special potion soak 12 hours can penetrate any poker mahjong shell game.
13. Losses may be concealed or shuffled around like a shell game...
14. Now you see why this article is subtitled "Winning the shell game."
15. There's always someone out there crying bubble, it seems; the trick is figuring out when it's easy money—and when it's a shell game.
16. This division of labour is likely to be perceived as another Wall Street shell game.
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