"Rube" Example Sentences
1. The city slicker took advantage of the gullible rube with his get-rich-quick scheme.
2. The slick car salesman played the rube like a fiddle, selling him a rusty lemon.
3. The con artist saw the rube coming a mile away.
4. The rube fell for every old trick in the book.
5. They thought they could cheat the rube out of his life savings with an easy scam.
6. The rube bought the Brooklyn Bridge story hook, line, and sinker.
7. The handyman took the rube for a ride, overcharging him for simple repairs.
8. The rube failed to see through the pyramid scheme.
9. The politician played to the rural rubes with exaggerated tales of life in the big city.
10. The city dwellers looked down on the country rubes as unsophisticated hicks.
11. The carnies swindled the rube out of his hard-earned cash at the ring toss game.
12. The carnival barker preyed on the rubes with exaggerated promises of fortune and fame.
13. The rubes were awed by the simplest of magic tricks at the traveling road show.
14. The advertisers targeted the rubes with outlandish claims for their miracle cures.
15. The rubes marveled at the illusions of the stage magician.
16. The rubes fell for the fake psychic's predictions and fortune telling.
17. Even the simplest of riddles stumped the rubes.
18. The rubes at the county fair oohhed and ahhed over commonplace technologies.
19. The rubes believed every fantastical tale the storyteller told around the campfire.
20. The rubes were easily led astray by sensationalistic headlines.
21. The rubes stared in wonder at the moving pictures, while jaded city dwellers yawned.
22. The rubes gawked in amazement at the airplanes flying overhead.
23. The rubes marveled at colors so bright they'd never seen before.
24. The rubes were mesmerized by the street performer's simple juggling act.
25. The rubes marveled at the sophisticated machines at the factory tour.
26. The sophisticated city slickers looked down their noses at the rubes.
27. The rubes thought I had performed real magic with my simple card tricks.
28. The rubes bought all the gold-plated trinkets at the kiosk, oblivious to their cheapness.
29. The rubes were in awe of the actors in fancy costumes parading down Main Street.
30. Even the smallest of gadgets impressed the rubes who had never seen such technology.
31. The rubes traded their hard-earned money for cheap fakes and cheap thrills.
32. The rubes stared open-mouthed at the sparkling colors of the city's neon lights.
33. The rubes marveled at the food variety at the grocery store.
34. The rubes believed every word of the storyteller's tall tales around the campfire.
35. The rubes gawked at photo booth pictures, thinking them real magic.
36. The rubes fell for every one of the fortune teller's vague predictions.
37. The rubes thought the simple card tricks were real magic.
38. The rubes were baffled by common riddles and puns.
39. The rubes were excited at the prospect of finding gold in the panning demonstration.
40. The rubes marveled at the glossy photographs in the magazines.
41. The rubes thought my cheap illusions were real magic.
42. The rubes bought alarm clocks disguised as fancy gadgets for 10 times their value.
43. The rubes were enthralled by the traveling circus's simple acrobatic stunts.
44. The rubes stared in wonder at the Currier and Ives prints on the wall.
45. The rubes desperately wanted to believe the charlatan's promises of miraculous cures.
46. The rubes bought every wild claim made in late-night infomercials.
47. The rubes happily handed over their money for cheap souvenirs in the city.
48. The rubes thought the magician really sawed the girl in half and put her back together.
49. The rubes bought every fake product on the shopping channel without question.
50. City slickers have always preyed upon unsuspecting rubes.
51. The rubes gaped in amazement at the trick bicycle riding down the sidewalk.
52. The rubes bought every exaggerated claim made about the products.
53. The rubes bought into every wild claim of the travelling medicine show.
54. The rubes fell for the easy money scams advertised in phony magazines.
55. The rubes thought the simplest stereoptican display was real magic.
56. The rubes were astounded by maps showing places they had never seen.
57. The rubes flocked in droves to have their fortunes told at the carnival.
58. The rubes parted easily with their money at the midway games of chance.
59. The rubes were amazed at stories of life in the big cities they had never seen.
60. The rubes stared open-mouthed at the commonplace technology taken for granted in the city.
Common Phases
1. pull the wool over (someone's) eyes: To deceive or trick someone, especially by withholding important information. This phrase refers to deceiving gullible
rubes.
2. take (someone) for a ride: To deceive or cheat someone, especially financially. Refers to tricking gullible
rubes.
3. fleece (someone): To cheat, swindle, or overcharge someone, especially financially. Refers to cheating gullible
rubes.
4. play (someone) like a fiddle: To easily manipulate or control someone. Refers to tricking gullible
rubes.
5. take advantage of (someone): To unjustly profit from someone's lack of knowledge or ability to protect themselves, especially for one's own selfish ends. Refers to tricking gullible
rubes.
6. pull the wool over (someone's) eyes: same as above.
7. in a New York minute: Very quickly or immediately. Refers to how city slickers can trick
rubes in an instant.
8. sawdust and tinsel: Something glitzy but cheap and tacky. Refers to souvenirs sold to trick
rubes.
9. come a cropper: To meet with disaster or failure, especially as a result of one's own fault or carelessness. Refers to how
rubes often "come a cropper" by trusting strangers.
10. three-card monte: A confidence trick using a gambling game with three playing cards as a distraction. Refers to how tricks were played on
rubes.