fob off
Example Sentences
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Ms Mannings reflected on how people often ask "are you OK?" - but it's a vague question, easy to "fob off".
From BBC • Oct. 16, 2025
I have never read any major news story so inappropriately world-weary — and so willing to fob off the press’ failures on the public.
From Salon • Dec. 17, 2019
The occult, the creepy, the just plain weird: this is exactly the kind of thing that ordinary detectives fob off onto the Peculiar Crimes team, if they possibly can.
From New York Times • Nov. 26, 2014
I wouldn’t put it past Roger to play on Pete’s ambition and sense of self-importance and fob off on him some of the non-recreational aspects of the job.
From Slate • May 8, 2012
Collins lived in a more reticent century, and attempted to fob off a disease on us as an accomplishment.
From The Art of Letters by Lynd, Robert
