- flim-flam (n.)
[flim-flam 词源字典]
- also flimflam, 1530s, a contemptuous echoic construction, perhaps connected to some unrecorded dialectal word from Scandinavian (compare Old Norse flim "a lampoon"). From 1650s as a verb. Related: Flim-flammer.[flim-flam etymology, flim-flam origin, 英语词源]