fob off
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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
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
But 'tis a paltry hat This Haberdasher would fob off on thee.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, December 12, 1891 by Various
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