informal <非正式>
mass noun
1- nonsensical or insincere talk胡言乱语, 胡扯, 废话; 假话, 不诚实之言：
I suppose that you suspect me of pseudo-intellectual flimflam.
我想你怀疑我是在冒充有知识胡说瞎扯。
1.1
- count noun a confidence trick骗局, 欺诈行为：
flimflams perpetrated against us by our elected officials.
我们选出的官员对我们玩弄的骗局。
(flimflammed, flimflamming)with obj.
- swindle (someone) with a confidence trick欺骗, 欺诈（某人）：
the tribe was flimflammed out of its land.
该部落被骗离属地。
派生词
flimflammer
nounflimflammery
noun词源
mid 16th cent.: symbolic reduplication.