fob : Idioms & Phrases
Index
Fob chain
- a short watch chain worn a watch carried in the fob.
Webster 1913
fob off
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verb sell as genuine, sell with the intention to deceive
foist off; palm off.
WordNet
To fob off
- to shift off by an artifice; to put aside; to delude with a trick."A conspiracy of bishops could prostrate and fob off the right of the people."
