blag
You have to be a bit of a blagger to be an actor.
I used to be a bit of a blagger.
The book is called "A Blagger's Guide to Talking your Way out of Just about Anything".
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Cheating & tricking
anti-fraud
bad faith
bamboozle
bilk
blackmail
deceive
diddle
feint
flannel
game-fixing
grift
grifter
gull
gyp
have an eye to/for the main chanceidiom
prankster
pretext
pretextual
pull
pull a fast oneidiom
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