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has gloss | eng: Children of Lieutenant Schmidt is a fictional secret society of con men that pretended to be children of Lieutenant Schmidt (a Russian revolutionary hero), described in The Little Golden Calf by Ilf and Petrov. Ostap Bender's two sidekicks were hapless former members of the society. |
lexicalization | eng: Children of lieutenant schmidt |
instance of | (noun) a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property bunco game, bunco, confidence game, bunko game, con, flimflam, bunko, gyp, sting, confidence trick, con game, hustle |
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media:img | Michail Panikovsky blind man.JPG |
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