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palm off

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palm off something

to trick or persuade someone to take something. They palmed off cheap wine at high prices by putting it in fancy bottles. She produced fake stamps and palmed them off as genuine.

Related vocabulary: fob something off on someone

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I s'posed, of course, Aurelia would send us the one we asked for, but it's just like her to palm off that wild young one on somebody else. Rebecca Of Sunnybrook Farm by Wiggin, Kate Douglas View in context More results

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