flimflam

Thinking optimistically, it is just possible that all this flimflam is actually a cunning plan to scuttle the shuttle once and for all.

乐观地想的话，有可能所有这些鬼话实际上是一劳永逸地破坏太空飞船的狡猾计划。

a flimflam man , matchstick man , loser . whatever you want to call it.

花言巧语的家伙，火柴人，窝囊废随便你叫什么都行。

Most secondaries are labelled "specialist" in one of a dozen fields, from mathematics to music to media studies, but this is mere flimflam.

大部分中学贴上了多领域之一的“专家”标签，从数学到音乐，再到媒体研究，但是这只不过是胡扯。

Merry notes that it is the record, not rhetorical flimflam, that will count when voters assess Obama.

玛丽写道，当投票人评价奥巴马时，是实实在在的记录，而非华而不实的胡说八道才是真正具有意义的。

So why have so many in Washington, especially in the news media, been taken in by this flimflam?

既然如此，为什么华盛顿那么多的人，特别是新闻界的人都被这种狗皮膏药所迷惑？

flimflam n. deception, fraud, deceptive nonsense

欺骗；胡言乱语