Examples of 'snake oil' in a sentence
Meaning of "snake oil"
A term used to describe a fraudulent or deceptive product, scheme, or remedy that claims to have miraculous or exaggerated benefits. It implies a scam or a product that lacks genuine effectiveness or legitimacy
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- A fraudulent, ineffective potion or nostrum; panacea.
- A traditional Chinese medicine used to treat joint pain.
- 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.
- Any product with exaggerated marketing but questionable or unverifiable quality.
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You sell snake oil to the weak.
Your friend getting some snake oil.
Kickapoo snake oil and lightning elixir.
He was a failed inventor and a snake oil salesman.
They are called snake oil salesmen or other things.
If you told them a bottle of snake oil.
So stop the snake oil sales pitch.
Sold us all those bottles of snake oil.
This is how snake oil gets sold.
They are nothing more that snake oil.
Sounds like a snake oil salesman story.
Snake oil for the mind.
There is a lot of snake oil over there.
No snake oil and no false promises.
You are some kind of a snake oil salesman.
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Snake oil was originally just that.
And the instincts of a snake oil salesman.
Snake oil in the age of genetics.
Turner is just another snake oil seller.
Snake oil in a fancy bottle.
They used to be called snake oil merchants.
Snake oil is a potent aphrodisiac.
The world is full of snake oil salesmen.
No snake oil being sold there.
We called them snake oil salesmen.
I see you have gone back to selling snake oil.
Modern day snake oil salesman.
Probably off selling someone a bottle of snake oil.
So this is the snake oil our friend is selling us.
And this is not snake oil.
Toenails and snake oil mean bread and whisky.
This is not an exhaustive list of snake oil signs.
Beware the snake oil salesman.
Let us go buy us some snake oil.
You and your snake oil would step.
He thought you were peddling snake oil.
We need to stop this snake oil form of politics.
But most of them just like snake oil.
Beware of the snake oil salesmen.
At best they are temporary snake oil.
There is no snake oil involved here.
Origin of the term snake oil.
She was pitching snake oil like a sideshow geek.
This is a compilation of common habits of snake oil vendors.
Toenails and snake oil mean bread and whiskey.
She got suckered by every snake oil salesman.
Snake oil salesmen ready to profit from your fear.
Nothing but snake oil here.
Anyone who says so is selling you snake oil.
Beware the snake oil sales.
