palming off
Example Sentences
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“Industry is simply palming off the benefits to the consumer.”
From The Guardian • Feb. 19, 2019
Whereas I previously felt sad about the prospect of getting rid of all the baby kit, I’m now palming off bits of neon plastic at every opportunity.
From The Guardian • Dec. 31, 2016
The line gets a laugh, but it’s a ruse: Tarantino is palming off the convolutions of his plot as a knowing gag.
From The New Yorker • Jan. 4, 2016
Good sequence: Barrymore and Colbert eyeing each other at a musicale which she has crashed by palming off a pawn ticket as a card of admission.
From Time Magazine Archive
You may be palming off a tale upon me.
From The Three Brides, Love in a Cottage, and Other Tales by Durivage, Francis A. (Francis Alexander)
