goldbrick
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Noun — (informal) A worthless or fake item passed off as genuine; a trick used to cheat someone.
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Etymology
From gold + brick, originally (1850s) an actual gold ingot or brick, later a swindle that consisted of selling a putative gold brick, which was only coated in gold. The swindle is attested from 1879, the sense “to swindle” is attested 1902, and the sense “to shirk” is attested 1914, popularized as World War I armed for...
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