skořápky

04:38 Oct 16, 2018

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Czech term or phrase: skořápky

To je ten pán, který vymyslel takové moderní skořápky.

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Some Israeli who swindled Czechs out of a billion CZK through market.com

Karel Kosman KudoZ activity Questions: 326 (1 open) (5 without valid answers) (2 closed without grading) Answers: 59 Czech Republic
Local time: 09:52

Discussion entries: 10

Jiri Lonsky

Czech Republic

thimbles, cups, shells ... anything goes

10:46 Oct 16, 2018

This game is played with anything that is available. Back in 1990, I saw some Serbian thugs conning people with this game near Brno bus terminal, and they used bottle caps.

Stuart Hoskins

10:42 Oct 16, 2018

"Shell games", by all accounts, is North American, which is interesting: some countries (historically) associate the con with shells, others with thimbles/cups.

Jiri Lonsky

Czech Republic

10:20 Oct 16, 2018

I've even heard the colloquial term "shells" in the US.

Ivan Šimerka

Czech Republic

06:20 Oct 16, 2018

The meaning here is that the man was a fraud, he cheated us. No friendly or amusing game.
https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skořápky
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shell_game

Karel Kosman

Czech Republic

ASKER

thimblerigging

06:17 Oct 16, 2018

at least according to seznam slovnik. they want it into UK English. perhaps this is what they say there? I think i'll just use this and then make a comment what it is. I looked it up what it means and I believe it is those cups and balls which street swindlers use to fool people out of their money.

Stuart Hoskins

Ivan

06:07 Oct 16, 2018

Jak se to vezme. As a native speaker, if someone said "shell game" to me in relation to a scammer, I wouldn't know exactly what they meant. If they said "cups and balls" I'd know precisely what they're talking about in the given context. Sometimes you have to play to your audience...

Ivan Šimerka

Czech Republic

06:02 Oct 16, 2018

"Shell game" is better.

Hannah Geiger (X)

United States

04:53 Oct 16, 2018

sorry, I did not see Stuart's post

Hannah Geiger (X)

United States

04:53 Oct 16, 2018

not enough context for me, but could mean shell game
https://www.cnbc.com/2015/07/29/global-financial-markets-a-s...

Stuart Hoskins

shell game / cups and balls

04:51 Oct 16, 2018

I might (context permitting) translate it as something like "That's (/ This is) the guy who invented a modern twist on the old cups-and-balls game". See Wikipedia - "shell game" and "cups and balls"

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