Trick-of-the-loop

exp.

Heard in Offaly and Tipperary

A con artist or fraudster.

In use

That fella is an awful trick-of-the-loop, he started up a pyramid scheme last year and has been drivin' around in a Merc ever since!

Posh English

That gentleman is a dreadful swindler; he established a pyramidal fraud last year and has motored about in a German luxury carriage ever since!