smoke and mirrors

smoke and mirrors N. Amer. the obscuring or embellishing of the truth of a situation with misleading or irrelevant information 〈北美〉（用误导或无关的信息）掩饰真相, 障眼法： the budget process is an exercise in smoke and mirrors. 预算程序不过是在施障眼法。 [ORIGIN: with reference to illusion created by conjuring tricks.]

• trigynous
• ditto mark
• Mammutinae
• qwerties
• beat/knock the (living) daylights out of sb
• connect hours
• Protochordata
• spiraeas
• lacto-
• skin-bound
• heavy hearted
• phase-modulation transmitter
• pan adapter
• be the shield and buckler
• shoulder-wing monoplane
• witheredness
• intercontinental ballistic missile
• be all adrift
• philippine seas
• slipperwort
• go forth
• pirate vessel
• operationists
• in agreement
• scag
• -st
• Stan.
• hadrosaurian
• bornholm diseases
• square up to sb / sth
• pay-as-you-goes
• thymopharyngeal ducts
• jam the brakes on
• diurnal circle
• federalise
• koninckite
• aporepressors
• abjectly
• assumingly
• neckties
• true course
• aphotic zone
• montera
• tondals
• Sun.
• money game
• open weaves
• Clausius statement
• ontogenesis
• bravuras
• sufflation
• on the hip
• old lags
• Pteridospermales
• thyrotomy
• a notice to quit
• duchess
• at this distance of time
• take the piss (out of sb / sth)
• calendrics
• kinkies
• surveys
• pop shot
• R factors
• abozzo
• my goodness! / goodness (gracious) me!
• behaved
• secretly
• monetary units
• sunning
• rattlepate
• put out to pasture
• Dionysius of Alexandria, Saint
• fill in the gap
• impellent
• dustbins
• calcium silicate
• inexpensively
• integralism
• bananas Foster
• times without number
• sea plant
• be nuts about / over sb / sth
• death under shield
• Bostrichidae
• betweenbrains
• destearinate
• National Insurance
• hypomenorrhea
• thars
• softkey
• curfewed
• find one's voice
• give sb to understand (that)
• extranet
• mannerisms
• little old ladies in tennis shoes
• speak one's mind
• Gay-Pay-U,Gay-PayOo
• Tuberculin Tests