| 单词 | hocus-pocus |
| 释义 | hocus-pocus (once / 25920 pages) n Hocus-pocus is an illusion or a meaningless distraction that tricks you in some way. Some people believe in astrology, while others think horoscopes are nothing but hocus-pocus. A car salesman might use smooth-talking hocus-pocus to distract you from the fact that you're paying way too much for your new convertible, and similarly, a magician uses hocus-pocus to draw her audience's attention away from the rabbit behind her back or the card up her sleeve. The word hocus-pocus originally came from magic shows, in fact — it's fake Latin, probably copied from the Latin Mass invocation, Hoc est corpus meum, "this is my body." WORD FAMILYhocus-pocus USAGE EXAMPLESAnd that Copperfieldian bit of geographic hocus-pocus is at the heart of the entire enterprise. Washington Post(Dec 10, 2016) The hocus-pocus of these buybacks purportedly raises the value of a company stock by making excess shares disappear and increasing earnings per share. New York Times(Aug 27, 2016) I had told him that, even as a practicing Catholic, I wasn’t likely to go in for a lot of hocus-pocus. Washington Post(Jul 01, 2016) n verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way Syn|Hyper hanky panky, jiggery-pokery, skulduggery, skullduggery, slickness, trickery deceit, deception, misrepresentation a misleading falsehood |
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