lừa gạt
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Definition
- Verb:
- To dupe, to deceive: To trick someone cunningly and dishonestly, often for personal gain or advantage. The action involves deliberate manipulation to make someone believe something that is not true.
Usage Examples
- Verb:
- Hắn lừa gạt nhiều người bằng những lời hứa hão huyền. (He duped many people with empty promises.)
- Đừng để bị lừa gạt bởi những chiêu trò đó. (Don't be deceived by those tricks.)
- Công ty đó bị cáo buộc lừa gạt khách hàng. (That company is accused of deceiving customers.)
Advanced Usage
"lừa gạt lẫn nhau": to deceive each other.
- Trong thế giới kinh doanh đầy cạnh tranh, đôi khi họ lừa gạt lẫn nhau. (In the highly competitive business world, they sometimes deceive each other.)
"hành vi lừa gạt": deceptive behavior / act of deception.
- Hành vi lừa gạt đó đã bị pháp luật trừng trị. (That deceptive act was punished by law.)
Variants and Related Words
- Lừa dối (verb): To deceive, to cheat. (A close synonym, often used interchangeably, though can imply a more cunning or treacherous aspect).
- Lừa đảo (verb): To swindle, to defraud. (Specifically implies fraud, often in financial or legal contexts).
- Gian lận (verb): To commit fraud, to be dishonest. (Broader term for fraudulent activities).
- Bịp bợm (adjective/verb): Deceitful, swindling. (Colloquial, describing a deceitful person or action).
Synonyms
- Đánh lừa: To trick, to fool.
- Lừa bịp: To swindle, to con. (Colloquial).
- Gạt: To dupe, to trick. (The second part of the compound ).
Related Phrases (Phrasal Verbs)
- Lừa gạt để chiếm đoạt: To deceive in order to appropriate/seize.
- Bọn tội phạm lừa gạt để chiếm đoạt tài sản của người già. (The criminals deceived to appropriate the property of the elderly.)
Related Idioms
"Lừa gạt như thần": To deceive masterfully/as skillfully as a god. (Emphasizes extreme cunning in deception).
- Tên buôn lậu đó lừa gạt như thần, qua mặt được cảnh sát nhiều lần. (That smuggler deceived masterfully, evading the police many times.)
"Treo đầu dê, bán thịt chó": Literally "Hang up a goat's head, sell dog meat." (An idiom meaning to engage in blatant deception or fraud, to misrepresent what is being sold).
- Cửa hàng đó treo đầu dê bán thịt chó, toàn là hàng giả. (That shop is completely deceptive, selling all fake goods.)
- Dupe, deceive