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A salesman who skipped the part where you get something back.

means Someone who cheats you out of money or property through calculated deception, dressed up as a legitimate deal.

from Borrowed into English in the 18th century from German 'Schwindler,' meaning a cheat or giddy person, rooted in 'schwindeln' — to be dizzy, to swindle, to tell lies — itself tied to an old Germanic sense of 'vanishing' or 'fading.' The image is of someone whose head spins with fibs, or whose schemes make your money spin away from you. It entered English largely through Jewish German-speaking immigrant communities in London, where 'swindler' quickly became the go-to word for con men working the markets.

etymology
from German schwindeln, to be dizzy or deceive
key skill
makes theft feel like your idea
legal line
fraud with better manners
tell
always leaving right after you pay
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