Many American self help books (how to be interviewed, how to sell yourself, how to make a positive image, etc.), suggest name dropping as a technique. Someone who hopes to impress the interviewer will say something like, "as X said to me last week when we were at X's house for..." or "I recently was talking with X and I mentioned my idea and X said that he had heard that my idea is very good." (where X is an important, rich and/or famous person).
Israelis modify this technique. They will say, "well Y met with X recently and they agreed that..." (where, in this case, X is known to be an infamous person or will in a subsequent part of the conversation will be shown to be a bad person.
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