单词 | fob off |
释义 | fob off 1. < the … patient thus denied effective examination is fobbed off with a bottle of medicine — Spectator > 2. < the pretentious phraseology with which they fobbed off their prophecies on the laity — Lancelot Hogben > 3. < 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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