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搪塞,(用诡计、借口)把…对付掉;
verb
transitive verb
to put off with a trick, excuse, or inferior substitute
to pass or offer (something spurious) as genuine
to put aside
now fob off what once they would have welcomed eagerly—Walter Lippmann
verb
transitive verb
to put off with a trick, excuse, or inferior substitute
to pass or offer (something spurious) as genuine
to put aside
now fob off what once they would have welcomed eagerly—Walter Lippmann
The first known use of fob off was in 1597
1 people who try to fob off to charities broken-down furniture that is fit only for the junkyard
2 But despite previous transparency around the cost-cutting measures, employees inquiring about how the budget cuts have impacted their performance review will now be fobbed off.
3 Most chose instead to fob off the hard decisions to central bankers.
4 We ripped him off in good faith.
我们用美好的诺言欺骗了他。
5 The fruit seller palmed off some bad oranges onto the little girl.
水果贩欺骗小姑娘,把坏桔子卖给她。
6 She packed the children off to bed.
她把孩子全打发去睡觉了。
7 His mother bundled him off to school.
他母亲赶紧打发他去上学。
8 The peddler tried to fob off a worthless article on little Tom.
小贩企图把件废品卖给小汤姆.
9 The salesman tried to fob off an inferior brand on us.
那个推销员试图以劣质牌号骗卖给我们.
10 Why do they now fob off what once they would have welcomed eagerly?
他们一度求之不得的东西为什么现在要予以排斥 呢 ?
1 欺骗
tricky spurious illusory tortuous fiddling delusive jiggery-pokery try-on sell rip-off put-on take-in trick twist fraud cheat hype hustle deception fudge sham falsehood dishonesty deceit trickery guile stratagem boondoggle skulduggery hocus-pocus razzmatazz flimflam blague swizz chicane spruce diddle pettifog cozen two-time bamboozle illude bilk con buffalo hoax dupe gull mystify beguile hoodwink bunco hocus euchre befool do kid green cross lie string bite blind impose fool mock fox deceive sucker fiddle juggle jockey chisel humbug gammon under false colours bludge on on the fiddle play false stall off put one across sell a a pup put it across take for a ride try it on make a fool of funny dirty fraudulent shenanigans artifice duplicity funny business snow screw shaft delude snooker jive gyp double-cross play dirty lead up the garden path put one over on come the raw prawn pull a fast one take advantage of play games fob off on put on wind up take in prey on phoney wrong chicanery monkey business have ream slip one over on do the dirty on sucker into doing sucker into into doing fob off with have on
2 搪塞
run-around prevaricate tergiversate fence equivocation equivocate give the runaround fob off with
3 骗…接受
4 骗售给