palm off
Verb
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Verb
palm off
- (idiomatic) To sell or dispose of (something) with the intent to deceive; to attempt to pass off a counterfeit or inferior product as genuine.
- 1871, Mark Twain, Journalism In Tennessee, or [https://web.archive.org/web/20070810094340/http://www.readbookonline.net/readOnLine/1562/]
- The inveterate liars of the Semi-Weekly Earthquake are evidently endeavoring to palm off upon a noble and chivalrous people another of their vile and brutal falsehoods […]
- 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses, Episode 18 ↗
- […] the old mangy parcel he sent at Xmas a cottage cake and a bottle of hogwash he tried to palm off as claret that he couldnt
[ sic] get anyone to drink […]
- […] the old mangy parcel he sent at Xmas a cottage cake and a bottle of hogwash he tried to palm off as claret that he couldnt
- 1963, United States Code Annotated
- (p.359) […] no one is to be allowed fraudulently to palm off upon the public his goods as those of another.
- (p.379) It is a fundamental rule that one man has no right to palm off his goods for sale as goods of a rival dealer […]
- 1871, Mark Twain, Journalism In Tennessee, or [https://web.archive.org/web/20070810094340/http://www.readbookonline.net/readOnLine/1562/]
- French: refourguer, refiler
- Russian: всучи́вать
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