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

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

Sometimes they turn market-gardeners and fob off the interviewer with remarks about caterpillars.

From Without Prejudice by Zangwill, Israel