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Razzle-dazzle   /rˈæzəl-dˈæzəl/   Listen
Razzle-dazzle

noun
1.
Any exciting and complex play intended to confuse (dazzle) the opponent.  Synonyms: razmataz, razzle, razzmatazz.






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"Razzle-dazzle" Quotes from Famous Books



... arrival was the subject of conversation in every decent home in town, and there wasn't a man who did not promise to fight shy of her. If she thinks Alcira is anything like the places where they dance the razzle-dazzle and there's no ...
— The Torrent - Entre Naranjos • Vicente Blasco Ibanez

... light broke on her. Vague, slippery, inexact, interested only in the personal—every word struck home. Had Miss Hicks set out to describe HER, in particular, she could not have done it more accurately. It was but too true: until now, she, Laura, had been satisfied to know things in a slipslop, razzle-dazzle way, to know them anyhow, as it best suited herself. She had never set to work to master a subject, to make it her own in every detail. Bits of it, picturesque scraps, striking features—what Miss Hicks no doubt meant by the personal—were all that had attracted ...
— The Getting of Wisdom • Henry Handel Richardson



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