Sentence examples for a con on from inspiring English sources

David refused to reveal the ending: he wanted this scene to be a con on the audience.

… That needs to be sound and doesn't need to be dismissed in any way as a con on the countries that signed up in Paris.

A con on my turf was a shade more venial than a lie.' The stray exhalations from that turf ' pungent human essences indeed!

The film is a romantic romp about a couple of corporate security types working a con on the corporations and on each other.

"Snatch" scurries through its paces like a con on the lam, though the film seems less pleased with itself than "Lock" and gives the actors a bit more room.

In there somewhere, a pair of small-time hoods (Jason Statham and Stephen Graham) run into a hustler named Mickey (Brad Pitt), and Guy Ritchie's movie, as lean as his debut feature, "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels," races through its paces "like a con on the lam, though the film seems less pleased with itself than 'Lock' and gives the actors a bit more room" (Mitchell).

Yes, he says, there is a bit of a con going on, and yes, the sounds and smells can be a bit overwhelming.

He was at the heart of a con based on "one great big lie", convincing potential buyer Terence Collins that he was a "close friend and associate" of the reclusive billionaire Barclay brothers, owners of the hotel in Piccadilly.

Cynical and suave, generous on one side, a con artist on the other, Al.

LOCATION A 10-minute cab ride to Lincoln Road and the scene on Collins Avenue, which is either a pro or a con depending on personal taste.

Tovey was born to play a con raised on turnips and 18th-century hardship.