"gold-brick" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1811, H. W. Hammond, Style-book of business English, page 6",
          "text": "Pomposity of style is confined to sellers of spurious goods, whether gold-bricks, medicines, or scholarships.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1906, Harry Houdini, The Right Way to Do Wrong, page 72",
          "text": "A species of swindle that has been perpetrated times without number all over this country is the old gold-brick game.",
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        "(usually attributive) Alternative form of goldbrick"
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    {
      "form": "gold-bricking",
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        "participle",
        "present"
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    {
      "form": "gold-bricked",
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        "participle",
        "past"
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    },
    {
      "form": "gold-bricked",
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        "past"
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        {
          "ref": "1944, Minnesota PTA Bulletin - Volume 20, Issue 4",
          "text": "All of this costs money, but if we all determine to put our own shoulder to the wheel instead of seeing how we can gold-brick we can make Democracy work right here in our own state.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1965, Samuel Feinberg, How Do You Manage?, page 36",
          "text": "... great numbers of “happy employees who are extremely loyal to the organization because they can gold-brick, be apathetic, and be non-involved in worrying about the effectiveness of the company.”",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1966, Paul Goodman, Five years, page 197",
          "text": "No; any man is likely to be stronger than any institution—a GI can gold-brick the Pentagon.",
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        },
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        "(usually attributive) Alternative form of goldbrick"
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      "form": "gold-bricked",
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          "ref": "1944, Minnesota PTA Bulletin - Volume 20, Issue 4",
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          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1965, Samuel Feinberg, How Do You Manage?, page 36",
          "text": "... great numbers of “happy employees who are extremely loyal to the organization because they can gold-brick, be apathetic, and be non-involved in worrying about the effectiveness of the company.”",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
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          "text": "No; any man is likely to be stronger than any institution—a GI can gold-brick the Pentagon.",
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        }
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