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"They pulled it off, because they managed to flog the goods and palm off a $4m ring in Antwerp, which isn't that easy," he added.

His parents divorced, and he was palmed off on various relatives until settling with his maternal grandmother in Danville, Illinois.

What a lot of the players are asking is why exactly they as world champions are being palmed off with an assistant coach rather than the kind of world-class coach that their performances merit.

It’s offensive to try to paint them as self-interested NIMBYs who just want to palm off the problem on someone else.

Protected from the news media after her brother dies, Saskia is palmed off on family friends — Jane and Philip and their son, Xavier.