smoke and mirrors

English - Turkish

Definition of smoke and mirrors in English Turkish dictionary

Saptırma, kandırmaca, göz boyama. Bir kavram veya olayın yanlış yönlendiren, sahte veya en azından gerekli tüm bilgileri içermeyen bir açıklama veya tanımı için kullanılan bir deyimdir

“You could develop a web application at least ten times faster with Rails than you could with a typical Java framework...” While this is impressive, ‘real’ web developers know that this is smoke and mirrors. ‘Real’ applications aren’t as simple as that.

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smoke and mirror

duman ve ayna

English - English

Definition of smoke and mirrors in English English dictionary

A deceptive, fraudulent, or unconvincing explanation or description

Smoke and mirrors is a metaphor for a deceptive, fraudulent or insubstantial explanation or description

Some would say “You could develop a web application at least ten times faster with Rails than you could with a typical Java framework...” Well, while impressive, this is nothing but smoke and mirrors.

Turkish pronunciation

smōk ınd mîrırz

Synonyms

artful deception, crap, flimflam, hokum, legerdemain, sleight of hand, snow job

Pronunciation

/ˈsmōk ənd ˈmərərz/ /ˈsmoʊk ənd ˈmɪrɜrz/

Etymology

() From the dubious vaudeville techniques traditionally used by stage magicians.