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
They put off replacement, defer maintenance and fob off concerns all in the name of “saving money” until something does happen.
From New York Times • Nov. 28, 2018
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
Was there ever, I wonder, an historian so pure as not to have wished just once to fob off on his readers just one bright fable for effect?
From Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story by Beerbohm, Max, Sir
