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单词 fob off
释义 fob off
transitive verb
Etymology: fob (I)
1. : to put off with a deceit or with an inferior substitute for what is needed or expected
 < the … patient thus denied effective examination is fobbed off with a bottle of medicine — Spectator >
2. : to pass or offer (something spurious) as genuine : palm off
 < the pretentious phraseology with which they fobbed off their prophecies on the laity — Lancelot Hogben >
3. : to put aside : fend off
 < a pleasant … gift of humor which he used to fob off laymen who wanted a simple explanation of relativity — G.R.Harrison >
: thrust away
 < why do they now fob off what once they would have welcomed eagerly — Walter Lippmann >
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