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bill of goods
[bil uhv goodz]
noun
a quantity or consignment of saleable items, as an order, shipment, etc.
Informal.a misrepresented, fraudulent, or defective article.
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of bill of goods1
Idioms and Phrases
sell someone a bill of goods, to defraud or deceive someone.
He sold me a bill of goods about that used car.
Example Sentences
Trump also benefits from a general bill of goods Americans were sold long ago: the entirely false idea that Republicans do a better job with the economy.
“I think our diets, nationally, and international probably, show the fact that we just have allowed ourselves to be sold a bill of goods.”
Traditional Unionist Voice leader Jim Allister said it was a "defining moment for unionism" and warned if the post-Brexit rules remained the same then "a false bill of goods was sold to the unionist people".
Steinberg suggests I was sold a bill of goods.
“At the same time, I have sympathy for some of these students because I think they were sold a bill of goods.”
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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