shell game
thimblerig

The president's plan is more a shell game than a policy.

"Congress is playing a shell game with the American people."

You did not report what might be called a nuclear shell game.

What kind of shell game were these people playing with their names?

Quick - which one of these is also called the shell game?

But you cannot attack the argument for being a shell game.

They tried to play a shell game with building lots and got caught.

What we were fed, at least in my experience, was a sort of shell game.

"The Republicans are trying to play a shell game with it."

The shell game of raising one tax to cut another is over.