NOUN
- (medicine) any of various liquids sold as medicine (as by a travelling medicine show) but medically worthless
- communication (written or spoken) intended to deceive
How To Use snake oil In A Sentence
- It would be unfair to accuse them of selling snake oil. Times, Sunday Times
- What it really is is the peddling of cultural snake oil. Times, Sunday Times
- What it really is is the peddling of cultural snake oil. Times, Sunday Times
- The list actually sounds a lot more like a 6th Form English project than a beard-stroking look at the future, but, in fairness, who would have thought Google Search Engineer or Social Networking Consultant/Snake Oil Salesman would be titles 20 years ago? RSSMicro Search - Top News on RSS Feeds
- What it really is is the peddling of cultural snake oil. Times, Sunday Times
- Perhaps, when the shouting from snake oil salesmen subsides, our leaders will find a way to forge a bipartisan solution.
- In the late sixteenth century, English borrowed this word, now spelled mountebank, to refer to those roaming charlatans who would step onto a box or bench to attract the attention of potential buyers of such dubious offerings as “snake oil” medicine.1 The English Is Coming!
- It would be unfair to accuse them of selling snake oil. Times, Sunday Times
- Yeah bu snake oil salemans Ford was begging Obama to put Hillary on the tkt "for the DLC's, err, the party's sake Wolfson: There Have Been "No Discussions" Of Ending The Race
- In any case, some of the financial snake oil peddled at the height of the housing bubble was bad for saving.
