How to pronounce “snake oil”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• (idiomatic) A fraudulent, ineffective potion or nostrum; panacea.
• A traditional Chinese medicine used to treat joint pain.
• 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) Any product with exaggerated marketing but questionable or unverifiable quality.

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