Brewer's: Flam

Flattery for an object; blarney; humbug. (Irish, film, Anglo-Saxon, flæm, flight.)

“They told me what a fine thing it was to be an Englishman, and about liberty and property ... I find it was a flam.” —Godwin: Caleb Williams. vol.ii. chap. v. p. 57.

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