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Bill Goods; Find Bill Goods. Shop at Target Online or In-Store.; ... Use bill of goods in a Sentence ... sell someone a bill of goods, to defraud or deceive someone: He sold me a bill of goods about that used car.
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sell (someone) a bill of goods. bill of goods (def. 3). ... ; Idiom(s): sell a bill of goods Informal To take unfair advantage of. Idiom(s): sell down the river Informal To betray the true trust or faith of. Idiom(s): sell short ... sell a bill goods...
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Fig. to get someone to believe something that isn't true; to deceive someone. Don't pay any attention to what John says. He's just trying to sell you a bill of goods. I'm not selling you a bill of goods. What I say is true. ... sell someone a bill of goods...
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Fig. to get someone to believe something that isn't true; to deceive someone. Don't pay any attention to what John says. He's just trying to sell you a bill of goods. I'm not selling you a bill of goods. What I say is true. ... sell someone a bill of goods...
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To sell a bill of goods today usually means 'to put something over on someone'. This usage appears to have arisen in the 1920s. No one knows exactly how it got started; but as long as there have been commercial transactions there has been fraud, so the association of the two in this phrase apparently struck a chord.
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Dr. Kevin R. Henke ... The following material may be freely copied and distributed as long as the author is properly acknowledged and the material is not altered, edited or sold ... Mandock, 1982; Plaisted, see The Radiometric Dating Game, fictional isotope fractionation processes (Woodmorappe, 2001; Plaisted:
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sell: Definition and Pronunciation ... turn traitor: He committed suicide rather than sell out to the enemy.; 10. sell short. See short (def. 33). 11. sell (someone) a bill of goods. See bill of goods (def. 3). 12. sell up, Brit.to sell out: She was forced to sell up her entire stock of crystal.;
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Terms derived from goods ... bill of goods ... sell someone a bill of goods...
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It dates from the 1920's. I'm not sure what the origin of the phrase is -- perhaps it means selling someone a description of the goods rather than the goods themselves. To 'sell someone a bill of goods' means to put one over on him.
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