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foist on

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foist something on someone

to force someone to accept or experience something. We even foist junk food on children in school cafeterias.

Usage notes: sometimes in the form foist something off on someone: You cannot foist this ridiculous plan off on the public.

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He no longer believed what Zeena had told him of the supposed seriousness of her state: he saw in her expedition to Bettsbridge only a plot hatched between herself and her Pierce relations to foist on him the cost of a servant; and for the moment wrath predominated. Ethan Frome by Wharton, Edith View in context More results

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