snake oil
Significat (Anglès)
- (idiomatic, uncountable) A fraudulent, ineffective potion or nostrum; panacea.
- (uncountable) A traditional Chinese medicine used to treat joint pain.
- (uncountable) A type of 19th-century patent medicine sold in the United States that claimed to contain snake fat, supposedly a Native American remedy for various ailments.
- (idiomatic, uncountable) Any product with exaggerated marketing but questionable or unverifiable quality.
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πανάκεια
panacée
panacea
rememdium panacēa
deusa grega que personifica a cura através das ervas
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