long con , also: big con
long game BrE

Eve thought, from the beginning, nothing but a long con for profit.

Mickey is a professional grifter who makes money by setting up long cons.

In addition to one long con, each episode features a number of short cons played by the major characters on members of the public.

The Kennedy siblings are less-experienced grifters, and newcomers to the long con.

He pretends to begin a long con, using her money to set it up, but in fact he simply plans to take the money.

After learning a few basic tricks, Cassidy soon asks Sawyer to pull off a long con.

Stacie is the only female member of a team-come-family of "long con" artists.

His helmet no longer con- stricted his voice.

Sawyer reveals that the incident was an elaborate "long con" to seize the guns and declare himself the "new sheriff in town".

Each one-hour programme follows the team of grifters as they practise the "long con", an extended deception practised against one or more "marks".

He had all too long con- sidered himself invulnerable, protected by destiny-merely because of the force of his motivations.

Moira Langtry: She was involved with Roy and is involved in the long con.

That's all I knew, cons-short cons, long cons, lifting wallets or playing the beard for some other grifter."

Jack and Jin intend to exact revenge on the Others, only for Sawyer to reveal that they had fallen for his long con.

In the season 2 episode "The Long Con", Sayid and Hurley hear the song being played on a music station.

With only 3 1/2 hours left before the series ends for good, however, what once felt like a delicious tease now feels a little bit like a long con.

When times were lean he has been willing to lend his acting talents to unscripted roles, to street improvisations-in short, to what the police call the "long con."

Mozzie later approached Neal about pulling a long con on a CEO named Vincent Adler.

The cover features John Hodgman holding a ferret, a reference to one of the "long cons" from The Areas of My Expertise.

Another song heard in the premiere, "Moonlight Serenade by Glenn Miller, was first used in the season two episode "The Long Con".

A hoax so well executed that it more closely resembles a long con, where the mark (in this case Techcrunch) is given numerous accurate tips before being hit with the sting.

On another occasion, Sawyer carries out a "Long con" (large-scale con) on a divorced woman named Cassidy who is known to be less gullible than his usual victims.

Just as they are about to embark on an ambitious long con, Roy's long-lost teenage daughter, Angela (Ms. Lohman), shows up to upend his pathologically ordered universe.

The necklace itself is a ravishing bauble designed by the royal jewelers for the ill-fated neck of Marie Antoinette, and it becomes the prize in Jeanne's ruthless long con.

Lester's departure for series four required Stone to be written out; the writers indicated that he had gone to Sydney, Australia, leading a long con to short-sell the Sydney Opera House.