Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - foist
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Foist
foist
(foists, foisting, foisted) • foist on If you say that someone foists something on you, or foists it upon you, you dislike the way that they force you to listen to it or experience it. I don’t see my role as foisting my beliefs on them... What this amounts to is foisting onto women the responsibility for reducing ‘the opportunities for crime’ by changing their behaviour. PHRASAL VERB: V n P n, V P n n (not pron) c darkgreen]disapproval
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1.
v.tr. (foll. by (off) on, (off) upon) 1 present (a thing) falsely as genuine or superior. 2 falsely fix the ownership of. 3 (foll. by in, into) introduce surreptitiously or unwarrantably. Etymology: orig. of palming a false die, f. Du. dial. vuisten take in the hand f. vuist FIST ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
2.
1. (on, upon) всучить, навязать to foist a bad coin on smb. —- всучить кому-л. фальшивую монету to foist oneself on smb. —- навязываться кому-л. he had foisted her upon us —- он навязал ее нам 2. (in, into) протащить, втиснуть 3. приписать (авторство) ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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4.
~ v foist sth on/upon sb phr v to force someone to accept or have to deal with something that they do not want (I keep getting work foisted on me at the last minute.) ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
5.
- 1545, from Du. vuisten "take in hand," from M.Du. vuist "fist." Earliest sense was cheating at dice by concealing one in the palm of the hand. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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