fob off
Example Sentences
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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
"It's an easy way to fob off a case," Mr Kelcey said.
From BBC • Apr. 29, 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
Vain, too, was his attempt to fob off his rebellious subordinate with the reluctance of the King.
From Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections by Rosebery, Archibald Phillip Primrose
