Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - palm off
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Palm off
palm off
If you say that someone has palmed something off on you, you feel annoyed because they have made you accept it although it is not valuable or is not your responsibility. I couldn’t keep palming her off on friends... Joseph made sure that he was never palmed off with inferior stuff. PHRASAL VERB: V n P on n, be V-ed P with n c darkgreen]disapproval
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1.
transitive verb Date: 1822 1. to dispose of usually by trickery or guile 2. pass off 2 palming himself off as a minister — Toni Morrison ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
2.
1. сбывать, всучивать, подсовывать he palmed off a bad coin on smb. —- он сбыл кому-то фальшивую монету export rejects may be palmed off in the street marcets —- бракованные экспортные товары можно сбыть на уличных рынках he is the kind of man on whom anything can be palmed off —- ему все можно всучить 2. отделываться, "отфутболивать" we were palmed off with promises —- от нас отделались обещаниями he palmed his brother off with some story or other —- он что-то наплел своему брату, чтобы от него отвязаться ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
3.
{v.}, {informal} 1. To sell or give (something) by pretending it is something more valuable; to sell or give by trickery. * /He palmed off his own painting as a Rembrandt./ * /The salesman palmed off pine wood floors as oak./ Syn.: FOB OFF, PASS OFF. 2. To deceive (someone) by a trick or lie. * /He palmed his creditors off with a great show of prosperity./ Syn.: PUT OFF. 3. To introduce someone as a person he isn't; present in a false pretense. * /He palmed the girl off as a real Broadway actress./ ...Английский словарь американских идиом
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