fob off
Example Sentences
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Is it really sustainable for them to fob off questions about it with non-answers for weeks on end?
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2023
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
They put off replacement, defer maintenance and fob off concerns all in the name of “saving money” until something does happen.
From New York Times ● Nov. 28, 2018
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
Well, I'll hear it, sir; yet you must not think to fob off our disgrace with a tale: but, an't please you, deliver.
From Coriolanus by William Shakespeare
