snake oil

Anything much beyond that is likely to be snake oil.

You mean the ones who take money from people and offer them only snake oil in return?

"Without such research, we'd be back in the days of snake oil."

In 1987 he gave the first of his "snake oil speeches".

"You have to put your snake oil in a beautiful package," he once said.

"It's not like who are you going to get to go to the first town and sell the snake oil," he explained.

"They thought we were trying to sell them snake oil.

It is commonly used in the production of Chinese snake oil.

He's got the look of an evangelical snake oil salesman about him.

At the moment Cameron is the best snake oil merchant in town.

Even in brain health, consumers need to distinguish the snake oil from the real deal.

This is not an exhaustive list of snake oil signs.

So there had to be a drop of snake oil in the ointment.

He's selling snake oil to the eager customers, and he knows it.

I could tell those people were selling snake oil.

The product being sold by the report's authors is almost entirely snake oil.

At least old time snake oil salesmen gave you a show with their pitch.

Which is all good fun if you've snake oil to sell, but otherwise useless.

At that time, you might want to consider a second career as a purveyor of snake oil.

Thank God this snake oil salesman didn't become the vice president.

He had been well rubbed down with snake oil.

"In the old days, it was the snake oil salesman at the county fair.

"It was the elixir of many recipes for snake oil."

A good snake oil salesman could do it pretty well.'

"It's designed for those few out there who are selling financial snake oil to military personnel," he added.