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bill of goods

[bil uhv goodz] / ˈbɪl əv ˈgʊdz /
NOUN
deceive someone
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You can tell they’re not just handing a bill of goods because they’re in front of you.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 12, 2025

SafeSport is a flimsy bill of goods the U.S.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 3, 2022

“You already feel like you were sold a bill of goods, like, ‘I did all the right things and now this.’

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 29, 2021

From our different vantage points, my daughters and I look at our millennial comrades and see what the shabby bill of goods they and their boomer parents were sold has wrought.

From Salon ● Aug. 8, 2020

But I wasn't buying the bill of goods Shohreh Saedi was selling.

From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi


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