Meaning of Flam | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A freak or whim; an idle fancy.
   countable, uncountable
2. Two taps (a grace note followed by a full-volume tap) played very close together in order to sound like one slightly longer note.
3. A village on the Aurlandsfjord in Aurland municipality, Vestland, Norway.
4. A falsehood; a lie; an illusory pretext
   archaic, countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“all Pretences, or Pleas of Conscience, to the contrary, are nothing but Cant and Cheat, Flam and Delusion.”

“a perpetual abuse and flam upon posterity”

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