gold-brick

plural gold-bricks

1. alternativeattributiveusuallyAlternative form of goldbrick.

   Pomposity of style is confined to sellers of spurious goods, whether gold-bricks, medicines, or scholarships.

   1811, H. W. Hammond, Style-book of business English, page 6

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   A species of swindle that has been perpetrated times without number all over this country is the old gold-brick game.

   1906, Harry Houdini, The Right Way to Do Wrong, page 72

present singular third person gold-bricks · participle present gold-bricking · participle past gold-bricked · past gold-bricked

1. alternativeAlternative form of goldbrick.

   No; any man is likely to be stronger than any institution—a GI can gold-brick the Pentagon.

   1966, Paul Goodman, Five years, page 197

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   All of this costs money, but if we all determine to put our own shoulder to the wheel instead of seeing how we can gold-brick we can make Democracy work right here in our own state.

   1944, Minnesota PTA Bulletin - Volume 20, Issue 4

   ... great numbers of “happy employees who are extremely loyal to the organization because they can gold-brick, be apathetic, and be non-involved in worrying about the effectiveness of the company.”

   1965, Samuel Feinberg, How Do You Manage?, page 36