snake oil

Noun

 * 1)  A fraudulent, ineffective potion or nostrum; panacea.
 * 2) A traditional Chinese medicine used to treat joint pain.
 * 3) 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.
 * 4)  Any product with exaggerated marketing but questionable or unverifiable quality.

Translations

 * Danish: kvaksalverprodukt
 * Finnish: huijauslääke
 * French:
 * German: Quacksalberprodukt
 * Portuguese: pó de perlimpimpim


 * Finnish: