bill of goods

Example Sentences

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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

“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

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

From Washington Post • 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