fob off
Verb
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Verb
- (informal, transitive) to put off by evasion
- When I phoned up, I was fobbed off with a string of excuses.
- 1608, William Shakespeare, Coriolanus, i, 1:
- You must not think to fob off our disgrace ; but, an't please you, deliver.
- 1641, John Milton, Of Reformation in England
- A conspiracy of bishops could prostrate and fob off the right of the people.
- (informal, transitive) to fraudulently dispose of (goods)
- He fobbed off the forgery as genuine.
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