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foist someone or something off (on someone or something) to cast someone or something unwanted off on someone or a group. Please don't try to foist cheap merchandise off on me. Don't foist off your brother on me! You can't foist that stuff off! It's worthless! People won't buy it! foist something on somebody also foist something upon somebody 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. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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And yet, tonight's episode hedges its bets, with a lot of uninteresting folderol that every reality show in existence foists upon its viewers: the farewell montage to the cattle-call losers, whom we don't know or care about in the first place; the perfectly unrevealing portraits of the winners, who seem practically interchangeable; their giddy squeals as they meet at the airport, and further giddy squeals as they move into their posh temporary digs, and their further giddy squeals -- Russell Quant chases around, trying to accommodate his mother's Christmas visit, while giving his lesbian friend whose breast cancer foists another dog upon his home, even while he is constantly being tailed, spied upon, and finally kidnaped. When her round-heeled mother foists the care of her casually-conceived babies onto Linda, she takes over the bottles and diapers without complaint. |
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