the hard sell

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*the hard sell

high-pressure selling techniques. (*Typically: get ~ give someone ~.) They gave me the hard sell, but I still wouldn't buy the car. The clerk gave the customer the hard sell.

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This form of advertising is very easy to implement and will work well in a business where the hard sell just isn''t working. What You Get from Promotional Advertising by Julie Johnson / Advertising, marketing, public relations community They're very pushy in the hard sell that they do and they're advertising something which doesn't have the background of credibility," said Bary. Kiwis condemn promotion of anti-impotence drug by Asian News International But though it's hard to root for any of the contestants, it is hugely enjoyable watching them try and make the hard sell to people who really don't want what they're offering. Natural Born Sellers (ITV1); Last Night's TV by Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England)			The good is the enemy of the best the good old days the goods on the gory details the gospel truth the grand old man of The grass is always greener The grass is always greener on the other side the grass roots the graveyard shift the gravy train the greasy pole the great and the good the great unwashed The greater the truth, the greater the libel the greatest thing since sliced bread the green-eyed monster the Grim Reaper the groves of academe the hair of the dog the halcyon days The hand that rocks the cradle The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world the hang of the happy event the hard sell the hard stuff the head honcho the hearts and minds of the heat is on the heavens opened the height of The hell you say! the here and now the high ground the high sign the highways and byways the hind end of creation the holy of holies the home straight the home stretch The honeymoon is over the hot ticket the icing on the cake the in thing the ins and outs the ins and outs of the Ivy League the jewel in the crown the joke's on the joker in the pack			The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world the handwriting is on the wall the handwriting is on the wall the handwriting is on the wall the handwriting is on the wall the handwriting is on the wall the handwriting is on the wall The handwriting on the wall The handwriting on the wall The Hanes Wine Review the hang of The Hanging Garden The Hanging Gardens The Hanging Gardens The hanging gardens of babylon The hanging gardens of babylon The Hangman The Hangman The Hangman The Hangman (film) The Hangman (film) The Hangman (film) The Hangover Cure the Hanse The Hansel and Gretel Foundation, Inc. The Happiest Days of Our Lives The Happy Chemical the happy event The Happy Extremist The Happy Sack Ltd the hard sell The Hard Stuff The Hardball Times The Hardest Button to Button The Hardy Boys The Harlem Globetrotters The Harlem Project The Harlem Renaissance The Harlem Renaissance The Harman Press The Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System The Harris Foundation The Harvard Crimson The Harvard Crimson The Harvard Undergraduate Drummers The Harvard University Drummers The Harveyville Fun Times The Harvill Press The Harz The Harz The Harz Mountains The Harz Mountains The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan The hatchery The Hatter The Hatter The Haunting in Connecticut The Haverford Review

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