snake oil

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A fraudulent, ineffective potion or nostrum; panacea. idiomatic,uncountable
  2. A traditional Chinese medicine used to treat joint pain. uncountable
  3. A type of 19th-century patent medicine sold in the United States that claimed to contain snake fat, supposedly a Native American remedy for various ailments. uncountable
  4. Any product with exaggerated marketing but questionable or unverifiable quality. idiomatic,uncountable
    — As for the IRP, Secretary of State Grant Shapps continues to peddle snake oil, smoke and mirrors. His reaction to near-universal IRP condemnation from politicians, local and national media, and all but a few rail specialists was to dismiss the lot of us (in the condescending and patronising tone we have now come to expect) as "critics and naysayers".
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