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  • 111fob off — {v.}, {informal} 1. To get something false accepted as good or real. * /The peddler fobbed off pieces of glass as diamonds./ Syn.: PALM OFF, PASS OFF. 2. To put aside; not really answer but get rid of. * /Her little brother asked where she was… …

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  • 112fob off — {v.}, {informal} 1. To get something false accepted as good or real. * /The peddler fobbed off pieces of glass as diamonds./ Syn.: PALM OFF, PASS OFF. 2. To put aside; not really answer but get rid of. * /Her little brother asked where she was… …

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  • 113fob\ off — v informal 1. To get something false accepted as good or real. The peddler fobbed off pieces of glass as diamonds. Syn.: palm off, pass off 2. To put aside; not really answer but get rid of. Her little brother asked where she was going, but she… …

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  • 114fob something off on someone — fob (something) off on (someone) to trick or persuade someone to take something. Do you think we can fob the children off on Grandma this weekend? This guy fobbed off a fake diamond on me. Related vocabulary: palm off something …

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  • 115fob something off on — fob (something) off on (someone) to trick or persuade someone to take something. Do you think we can fob the children off on Grandma this weekend? This guy fobbed off a fake diamond on me. Related vocabulary: palm off something …

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  • 116fob off on someone — fob (something) off on (someone) to trick or persuade someone to take something. Do you think we can fob the children off on Grandma this weekend? This guy fobbed off a fake diamond on me. Related vocabulary: palm off something …

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  • 117fob off on — fob (something) off on (someone) to trick or persuade someone to take something. Do you think we can fob the children off on Grandma this weekend? This guy fobbed off a fake diamond on me. Related vocabulary: palm off something …

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  • 118put off — I postpone, delay; avoid. See lateness, avoidance. II (Roget s IV) v. Syn. postpone, defer, retard; see delay . III (Roget s Thesaurus II) verb To offer or put into circulation (an inferior or spurious item): fob off, foist, palm off, pass off.… …

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  • 119fob off — (Roget s Thesaurus II) verb To offer or put into circulation (an inferior or spurious item): foist, palm off, pass off, put off. See HONEST …

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  • 120pawn off — transitive verb Date: 1832 to get rid of or pass off usually by deception ; palm off …

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