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单词 I have a bridge to sell you
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I have a bridge to sell you

US
Used to indicate that a particular statement or claim could only be believed by someone who is very gullible: if you think that he will make things better, then I have a bridge to sell you
1940s: with reference to the practices of con artists in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, especially George C. Parker (1870–1936), who pretended to own the Brooklyn Bridge in order to trick people into buying it
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