sucker trap en · NOUN
Meanings
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(informal) A scam; a fraudulent deal offered to the unwary.
“Such a cheap sucker trap... a cheap sucker trap... and I fell for it!” he was hissing, glaring at Koves with a look of hatred from behind misted-up spectacles.
2013, Imre Kertész, Fiasco, →ISBN:It had been a sucker trap and they had fallen right into it. Why, they had walked in here of their own free will, to keep an appointment made by the US Embassy.
2011, Ken Follett, On Wings of Eagles, →ISBN:'At this time of the year, Florida's the biggest sucker-trap on earth. On the East Coast they fleece the millionaires. Where we're going they just take it off the little man. Serves him right, of course. He goes there to die. He can't take it with him.'
1954, Ian Fleming, “The Everglades”, in Live and Let Die, London: Pan Books, published 1957, page 119:I fell for a sucker trap and got taken but good. My own fault ... should have known better.
2001, Mickey Spillane, The Mike Hammer Collection, volume 1, →ISBN:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| sucker-trap | alternative | lexicographic | |
| sucker's trap | alternative | lexicographic | |
| sucker traps | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
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Translations (7)
fi mennä retkuun (Translations) · fi mennä halpaan (Translations) · pl oszustwo (Translations) · fi mennä lankaan (Translations) · fr piège à cons (Translations) · fr attrape-nigaud (Translations) · fi fall for... (Translations)