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verb (tr, adverb)

to appease or trick (a person) with lies or excuses

to dispose of (goods) by trickery

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How to use fob off in a sentence

Although the blood-spattered offices will be off-limits, staff have vowed to continue producing the magazine.
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A passing off-duty school safety officer named Fred Lucas said that he had been told the man was a drug dealer.
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The NOPD fired Knight in 1973 for stealing lumber from a construction site as an off-duty cop.
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The off-year special election into which Duke threw himself drew little media notice at first.
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Aaron Paul may play a young Han Solo in the first Star Wars spin-off.
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A far-off volley rumbled over the plain, and a few birds stirred uneasily among the trees.
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Certain, replied the man, drawing a gold watch from his fob; I expected him here before now.
Oliver Twist, Vol. II (of 3)|Charles Dickens
Jean was to be an architect—God knows why—but Aristide settled it, definitely, off-hand.
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In favorable parts of the trail he must do better than that, to off-set losses of time where the going was most difficult.
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There was something about the man that Matt liked, in spite of the deceit he had practised at the start-off of their acquaintance.
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Other Idioms and Phrases with fob off

fob off

Sell or dispose of goods by fraud or deception, as in They tried to fob off the zircon as a diamond. [c. 1600]

Put off or appease by deceitful means, as in We needed her help but were fobbed off by promises. [c. 1600]

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