江湖骗子
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Definition
江湖骗子
Literally means:
vagrant swindler
Actually means:
charlatan
江湖, all corners of the country in the broad sense.
This phrase originally refers to those who travel around and live on fortune-telling, divination or quackery practice. It also refers to those who are busy raising their status or swindling around with various false titles. Derogatory.
江湖,泛指四方各地。
江湖骗子,原指在各地流浪,靠算命、占、卖假药骗钱为生的人。也泛指假借某种名义,到处炫耀自己,进行诈骗的人。具有贬义色彩。
Example
Now on the Internet also often appear river and lake fraudsters. However, the means of these river and lake fraudsters are not smart, as long as you are not greedy will not be.
These people are not politicians, to put it more colloquially, political liars.
Now, almost all tourist attractions have river and lake fraudsters, the most of which is fortune teller.