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Meanings of palm off in English
Synonyms
Examples for "foist off"
Examples for "foist off"
1
This is not an explanation you give to a twenty-nine-year-old man; this is an explanation you foist off on kids.
2
The controversy has been hot; but the Central State-trying to foist off its undesirables on us-knowsit is in the wrong.
3
So when th' skoit here puts it up to me I thinks foist off: 'Is it right or is it wrong?'
4
She was still with him because she swore that, to this day, he was too impossible to foist off on a less-seasoned secretary.
5
No telling how many lies she'd foisted off on me.
1
This Haberdasher would fob off on thee.
2
She did her best to fob off a question on the topic during an appearance on Sunrise yesterday.
3
Elsa Pataky did her best to fob off a question about her brother-in-law Liam Hemsworth on Sunrise this morning.
4
Now it is obviously critical flippancy to fob off D. H. Lawrence as another example of Romanticism gone to seed.
5
Cembalest's diagram includes a dozen different stakeholders, each trying to fob off the burden of the euro crisis onto someone else.
Usage of palm off in English
1
He could not palm off that kind deceit upon me.
2
But try to palm off one lie upon me, and I'll riddle you through.
3
They didn't palm off an old-fashioned suit on him, if he was from the country.
4
Had Muller tried to palm off something on her?
5
So one to palm off on that family member who will drink any old rubbish?
6
They need not palm off their lie that the fault lay with the foolish young warriors.
7
But she popped a palm off her forehead.
8
I don't believe it would be very easy to palm off a cheap grade on me.
9
Don't you palm off any luncheon on us!
10
I couldn't manage the Duchess, and I can't palm off your arts on Louisa Bry as mine.
11
Some addressed their own envelopes with much labor, and sought to palm off the whole as their handiwork.
12
Some addressed their own envelopes with much labour, and sought to palm off the whole as their handiwork.
13
But there exists that Kultur, diametrically opposed to civilization, which the Germans wish to palm off upon us.
14
This was the message that the National Front's heir apparent tried to palm off on the press here yesterday.
15
Because we do not want to buy what interested shopmen and milliners may choose to palm off on us.
16
If you're going to palm off any story against me, Mr. Heathcote, you'll find yourself in the wrong box.
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