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idiombe a shell game AmEAmEa plan or way of doing things that tricks people by changing things so that they seem good or better when they are not ◆ often used in newspapers, on television news etc: It's a shell game. State lawmakers are playing with the money, shifting it on the books from one year to another. Though it was announced with great fanfare, the new project to help science students is actually a shell game that cuts an older project with the identical purpose.Note A shell game is a game in which someone has to guess which of three shells a small ball is hidden under after the person in control of the game has moved the shells around very quickly. The person in control of the game can usually move the shells so skilfully that the player is tricked.
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