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People working American carnivals - carnies - who were in on the fiction and the scam of it, would let others know not to bother trying to play them for rubes by explaining that they were "with it" - "it" meaning the carny life. To be "for it" was not be, if not directly involved, at least aware of the truths - rigged games and so on - behind the benign surface of the carnival.

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