And he underestimated the loyalty of the canny folk of Glenrothes who can spot a
snake-oil salesman at 50 paces.
No match for Chinatown's
snake-oil salesmen, Whitehall bureaucrats are unamused.
The reality is that Labour has at its head a true statesman with a decade of ministerial experience, while the Tories have a slick, glib
snake-oil salesman.
Cranborne added: "We are being sold
snake-oil by
snake-oil salesmen who only want to perpetuate their hold on power.
The bid team believed that after an 18-month campaign, voters could be swayed in the last 24 hours by a
snake-oil salesman (Cameron), a hairoil salesman (Beckham), and a royal who thinks 'outside right' is the position of most toilets in the North.
LEGISLATORSmust work fast and draft legislation to protect vulnerable people from quacks charlatans and
snake-oil men.
Conservative means to progressive ends is the slogan of a
snake-oil salesman.
Nobody would buy a cure-all off a travelling
snake-oil salesman.
MICHAEL Howard increasingly resembles a
snake-oil salesman.
Prezza in full harrumph is enough to split anybody's sides, as is
snake-oil salesman Alan Milburn saying virtually anything.
What he could have said was that they were behaving like
snake-oil salesmen, cunningly persuading a hapless public that they were selling something important.
It is an index of Blair's weakness that he cannot bring himself to repudiate the
snake-oil salesman of his regime.