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foist off

/fɔɪst ɒf/

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verb

/fɔɪst ɒf/C1formal
  • ruФразовый глагол, означающий навязывать или всучивать кому-то что-то нежелательное, или выдавать некачественный или мошеннический товар за настоящий.

A phrasal verb meaning to impose or force something unwanted onto someone, or to pass off something inferior or fraudulent.

uncountable · transitive · phrasal, separable

  1. Impose or pass offinformal

    To force someone to accept something that is not wanted or is of inferior quality.

    ruНавязать

    • He tried to foist off his old computer on his younger brother.
    • The salesman foisted off a defective product on the customer.
    • She foisted off the blame for the mistake onto her colleague.

    Synonymsfob offfoistimposeoffloadpalm offpass offthrustunload

Forms
  • foisted off past participle
  • foisted off past simple
  • foisting off present participle
  • foists off third person singular

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Vocab Bloom Hub English dataset · 0.3.1

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