someone whodeceivespeopleinorderto getmoneyfrom them:He wasdubbeda "moderndaysnakeoilsalesman" after herippedoff thousands ofinternetcustomers.(Definition ofsnake oil salesmanfrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary? Cambridge University Press)
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snake oil salesmanBy extension, asnakeoilsalesmanis someone who knowingly sells fraudulent goods or who is himself or herself a fraud, quack, charlatan, and the like.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.We are back to thesnakeoilsalesman.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0It does not need them to offer the techniques of thesnakeoilsalesmanor smoke and mirrors.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0What did asnakeoilsalesmando to him in the past that makes him dislike them so?From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0We have had the politics of thesnakeoilsalesmanand nothing of new politics.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0We are talking about substances which, in high concentrations, may well be poisonous, and substances for which claims are made that would make the averagesnakeoilsalesmanblush.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0We are being sold snake oil by snake oil salesmen who want to perpetuate their hold on power only by rigging the system.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.#https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/snake-oil-salesman##
