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"A shell game" nghĩa là gì?
22 Apr, 2020
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"A shell game" có từ shell là vỏ sò, vẻ bề ngoài -> từ này nghĩa là phương pháp lừa dối bằng cách che giấu sự thật.
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“20 years ago I was given the task of straightening (làm thẳng) this town out financially it was a mess. You had less services and were paying higher taxes, he said. “It was a shell game going on, every election year there was a zero point increase every other non-election year it was double digit (con số) increase.”
Others might counter with the point that this is a shell game of moving around the peanut (hạt đậu) to distract, and maybe there isn’t any peanut sitting under the shells, or that the real date is perhaps in 2021 or 2022, but to pacify (làm yên, làm nguôi) and keep people eagerly engaged that the drip-drip of make a date and then move the date is being teased.
“I expect there to be a large attrition (quá trình làm yếu sức lực và lòng tin của ai bằng cách quấy rầy liên tục; sự tiêu hao sinh lực) rates for restaurants. ... They are typically operating month to month, as far as revenue. It’s always kind of a shell game with money coming in and money coming out,” said Matthew Williams of Sebastopol’s Ramen Gaijin, which furloughed (cho nghỉ phép) 40 of its employees.
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