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EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The new program to help science students is just a shell game , as an older program that helps more students is being cut.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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It was a curious shell game in which each side thought it had the upper hand.
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Life in the Lubetkin family was a perpetual shell game .
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The shell game which Dad had instigated so long ago had impoverished all three of us.
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The middle class will soon enough tumble to the fact that it is the sucker in Forbes's shell game .