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sell someone a bill of goods

sell someone a bill of goods verb: to deceive or cheat someone.

Verb

sell someone a bill of goods (third-person singular simple present sells someone a bill of goods, present participle selling someone a bill of goods, simple past and past participle sold someone a bill of goods)

  1. (idiomatic) To deceive or cheat someone.
    • "He showed no knowledge of his subject," McCarran told newsmen. ". . . Someone must have sold him a bill of goods."1953 June 16, “McCarran Raps Ike Speech at Dartmouth”, in Rome News-Tribune, US, retrieved 21 Jun 2009, page 3
    • Bill O'Reilly, of the Fox News Channel, has called on the President to admit that the CIA sold him a bill of goods and to fire the agency's director.2004 February 9, John Cassidy, “Blame Game: Intelligence Services and the Iraq War”, in New Yorker
    Synonyms:
    misinform

sell someone a bill of goods meaning in Bengali

sell someone a bill of goods in Bengali

কাউকে প্রতারণা করা, ঠকানো

Synonyms of sell someone a bill of goods

Forms of sell someone a bill of goods

third-person singular presentsells someone a bill of goods
present participleselling someone a bill of goods
past participlesold someone a bill of goods
pastsold someone a bill of goods

Questions about sell someone a bill of goods

What does sell someone a bill of goods mean?
Sell someone a bill of goods means to deceive or cheat someone.
What is sell someone a bill of goods in Bengali?
Sell someone a bill of goods in Bengali is কাউকে প্রতারণা করা, ঠকানো. See Sell someone a bill of goods meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is sell someone a bill of goods?
Sell someone a bill of goods is a verb.
What is the past tense of sell someone a bill of goods?
The past tense of sell someone a bill of goods is sold someone a bill of goods.

Words near sell someone a bill of goods in the dictionary

  1. sell salt to a slug
  2. sell short
  3. sell side
  4. sell sides
  5. sell snow to Eskimos
  6. sell someone a bill of goods
  7. sell someone a pup
  8. sell the dummy
  9. sell the family silver
  10. sell the news
  11. sell the pass

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