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SELL (SOMEONE) A BILL OF GOODS

to sell someone smth. that is worthless (1), or to make someone believe smth. that is untrue (2); to deceive someone
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1. The ring looked real on television, but when it arrived in the mail, Paula knew she had been sold a bill of goods.
2. The project manager told us that construction would be finished by August; it wasn’t until later that we discovered he had sold us a bill of goods.


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