smoke and mirrors

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A deceptive, fraudulent, or unconvincing explanation or description. figuratively
    — Budget process? It's more like a magic show. It's wink and blink and smoke and mirrors and pulling rabbits out of hats, but almost all that ever comes up are designs to hide increases for the special interests.

词源

From techniques traditionally used by stage magicians.
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