bill of goods
Noun
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Noun
bill of goods
- (business) A collection of items purchased or offered for sale.
- 1884, Horatio Alger, Do and Dare, ch. 18:
- "This morning," he said, "I foolishly gave Eben a hundred dollars, and sent him to Boston to pay for a bill of goods which I recently bought of a wholesale house on Milk Street."
- 1884, Horatio Alger, Do and Dare, ch. 18:
- (idiomatic) A set of misleading or deceptive claims; misinformation.
- 1956 Aug. 27, "[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,864088,00.html Harry's Bitter Week]," Time:
- Truman bought quite a bill of goods from the old cronies who had flocked to Harriman.
- 1956 Aug. 27, "[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,864088,00.html Harry's Bitter Week]," Time:
- (misinformation) bullshit
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