double-talk and hot-foot-giving artist

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Выражение встречается в следующем контексте: There was only one thing to do and that was to consult Whitey Bimstein, who is not only the world's most famous handler of prizefighter's, as well as a double-talk and hot-foot-giving artist, but also a figure in the international social set.

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[Truth Seeker]

to give somebody a hotfoot - to play a practical joke in which a match is surreptitiously inserted between the upper and the sole of a victim's shoe and lighted
Doubletalk - Meaningless speech, gibberish mixing real and invented words.

[карнет-а-пистон]

double talk is not just meaningless speach, but deliberately unintelligible speach intended to conceal the truth or true motivations.

[kath]

yes, to put it very simply, double talk is to say one thing and mean another