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"etymology_text": "“Palming” an object (as in a playing card) is a type of sleight of hand, secretly removing the desired article and leaving only the undesired one.",
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"examples": [
{
"ref": "1871, Mark Twain, Journalism In Tennessee",
"text": "The inveterate liars of the Semi-Weekly Earthquake are evidently endeavoring to palm off upon a noble and chivalrous people another of their vile and brutal falsehoods […]",
"type": "quotation"
},
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"ref": "1963, United States Code Annotated",
"text": "(p.359) […] no one is to be allowed fraudulently to palm off upon the public his goods as those of another.\n(p.379) It is a fundamental rule that one man has no right to palm off his goods for sale as goods of a rival dealer […]",
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"To sell or dispose of (something) with the intent to deceive; to attempt to pass off a counterfeit or inferior product as genuine."
],
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"(idiomatic) To sell or dispose of (something) with the intent to deceive; to attempt to pass off a counterfeit or inferior product as genuine."
],
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"word": "pam off"
},
{
"word": "reverse palming off"
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"synonyms": [
{
"word": "foist"
},
{
"word": "fob off"
},
{
"word": "pass off"
},
{
"word": "pawn off"
}
],
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"translations": [
{
"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"sense": "to sell or dispose of something with the intent to deceive",
"word": "sırımaq"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to sell or dispose of something with the intent to deceive",
"word": "opdringen"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to sell or dispose of something with the intent to deceive",
"word": "opzadelen met"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to sell or dispose of something with the intent to deceive",
"word": "panna kiertoon"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to sell or dispose of something with the intent to deceive",
"word": "refourguer"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to sell or dispose of something with the intent to deceive",
"word": "refiler"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to sell or dispose of something with the intent to deceive",
"word": "sbolognare"
},
{
"code": "ota",
"lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
"roman": "satmak",
"sense": "to sell or dispose of something with the intent to deceive",
"word": "صاتمق"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "vsučívatʹ",
"sense": "to sell or dispose of something with the intent to deceive",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "всучи́вать"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "sbyvátʹ",
"sense": "to sell or dispose of something with the intent to deceive",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "сбыва́ть"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "podsóvyvatʹ",
"sense": "to sell or dispose of something with the intent to deceive",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "подсо́вывать"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "sbágrivatʹ",
"sense": "to sell or dispose of something with the intent to deceive",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "сба́гривать"
}
]
}
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"tags": [
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"word": "palm off"
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{
"etymology_text": "“Palming” an object (as in a playing card) is a type of sleight of hand, secretly removing the desired article and leaving only the undesired one.",
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"word": "reverse palming off"
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"examples": [
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"type": "quotation"
},
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"ref": "1963, United States Code Annotated",
"text": "(p.359) […] no one is to be allowed fraudulently to palm off upon the public his goods as those of another.\n(p.379) It is a fundamental rule that one man has no right to palm off his goods for sale as goods of a rival dealer […]",
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"To sell or dispose of (something) with the intent to deceive; to attempt to pass off a counterfeit or inferior product as genuine."
],
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"deceive"
],
[
"counterfeit",
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"(idiomatic) To sell or dispose of (something) with the intent to deceive; to attempt to pass off a counterfeit or inferior product as genuine."
],
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"tags": [
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"synonyms": [
{
"word": "foist"
},
{
"word": "fob off"
},
{
"word": "pass off"
},
{
"word": "pawn off"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"sense": "to sell or dispose of something with the intent to deceive",
"word": "sırımaq"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to sell or dispose of something with the intent to deceive",
"word": "opdringen"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to sell or dispose of something with the intent to deceive",
"word": "opzadelen met"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to sell or dispose of something with the intent to deceive",
"word": "panna kiertoon"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to sell or dispose of something with the intent to deceive",
"word": "refourguer"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to sell or dispose of something with the intent to deceive",
"word": "refiler"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to sell or dispose of something with the intent to deceive",
"word": "sbolognare"
},
{
"code": "ota",
"lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
"roman": "satmak",
"sense": "to sell or dispose of something with the intent to deceive",
"word": "صاتمق"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "vsučívatʹ",
"sense": "to sell or dispose of something with the intent to deceive",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "всучи́вать"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "sbyvátʹ",
"sense": "to sell or dispose of something with the intent to deceive",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "сбыва́ть"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "podsóvyvatʹ",
"sense": "to sell or dispose of something with the intent to deceive",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "подсо́вывать"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "sbágrivatʹ",
"sense": "to sell or dispose of something with the intent to deceive",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "сба́гривать"
}
],
"word": "palm off"
}
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