"smoke and mirrors" meaning in 英語

{
  "categories": [
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "有1個詞條的頁面",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "有詞條的頁面",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "英語名詞",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "英語詞元",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "來自魔術師使用的傳統障眼表演技巧。",
  "lang": "英語",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "pos_title": "名詞",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "有引文的英語詞",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "英語引文翻譯請求",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1987 March 21, Ronald Reagan, Presidential Radio Address,",
          "text": "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."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, Australian Senate, Parliamentary debates Australia: Senate,",
          "text": "On revenue raising issues, Mr Harris reveals what a master of smoke and mirrors Bob Carr really is."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009 October 17, Barack Obama, Weekly Address: Taking the Insurance Companies on Down the Stretch,",
          "text": "It’s smoke and mirrors. It’s bogus. And it’s all too familiar. Every time we get close to passing reform, the insurance companies produce these phony studies as a prescription and say, \"Take one of these, and call us in a decade.\""
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022年January12日, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Unhappy start to 2022”, 出自 RAIL, 第 948 期，第 3 頁:",
          "text": "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\"."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "煙幕"
      ],
      "id": "zh-smoke_and_mirrors-en-noun-1xn4iZNI"
    }
  ],
  "word": "smoke and mirrors"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "有1個詞條的頁面",
    "有詞條的頁面",
    "英語名詞",
    "英語詞元"
  ],
  "etymology_text": "來自魔術師使用的傳統障眼表演技巧。",
  "lang": "英語",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "pos_title": "名詞",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "有引文的英語詞",
        "英語引文翻譯請求"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1987 March 21, Ronald Reagan, Presidential Radio Address,",
          "text": "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."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, Australian Senate, Parliamentary debates Australia: Senate,",
          "text": "On revenue raising issues, Mr Harris reveals what a master of smoke and mirrors Bob Carr really is."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009 October 17, Barack Obama, Weekly Address: Taking the Insurance Companies on Down the Stretch,",
          "text": "It’s smoke and mirrors. It’s bogus. And it’s all too familiar. Every time we get close to passing reform, the insurance companies produce these phony studies as a prescription and say, \"Take one of these, and call us in a decade.\""
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022年January12日, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Unhappy start to 2022”, 出自 RAIL, 第 948 期，第 3 頁:",
          "text": "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\"."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "煙幕"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "smoke and mirrors"
}