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"Fob off" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... manuscript came back from Mr. Pinhorn, accompanied with a letter the gist of which was the desire to know what I meant by trying to fob off on him such stuff. That was the meaning of the question, if not exactly its form, and it made my mistake immense to me. Such as this mistake was I could now only look it in the face and accept it. I knew where I had failed, but it was exactly where I couldn't have succeeded. I had been sent down ...
— The Death of the Lion • Henry James |
Words linked to "Fob off" : sell, commerce, crime, foist off, commercialism, offense, criminal offence, criminal offense, law-breaking, mercantilism, offence |
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