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"palm off" Definitions
  1. (informal) to persuade somebody to believe an excuse or an explanation that is not true, in order to stop them asking questions or complaining

13 Sentences With "palm off"

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The answer was unequivocal: It's what got Indonesian palm off the ground.
"Economically and legally, it is impossible to palm off losses onto banks by borrowing to pass on the cost of failure," she said.
You can't palm off the sex toy as a lipstick or a back massager, and your mum is just too damn smart for a line like that.
"Australia should not be trying to palm off people the government considers problems to the U.S.A. We have the solution here," protester Beverley Fine, 62, told Reuters.
Then, as the family had its gaze fixed on Georgetown University, they conspired with Gordon Ernst, the school's tennis coach, to palm off their daughter as a tennis player.
Trafalgar believes that answer to the second question helps bring out the truth from shier voters as they now can sort of palm off a potentially controversial Trump win on their neighbors.
Memo From Israel JERUSALEM — He and his family have been accused of improprieties as strange as trying to palm off their used lawn furniture to the prime minister's residence, and as serious as pocketing illegal contributions from foreign donors.
Distracted by tricky gadgets, slick cars, and hectic stuntwork, I used to palm off "classic Bond" moments: cringey innuendos, straight-up sexist dialogue, women depicted as mere tools to "pump for information" and be left hanging with a hat-tip and a terrible pun.
Maxime also explains that the con was to see whether Cash was smart enough to join his own gang; but he failed. He is told that another man, named Vincent, will have his role. In revenge Cash loses at poker in order to palm off a few fake euro notes to the gloating Vincent, who is picked up later trying to use them at racecourse. Cash then gets the call that he will join the gang.
He was also a part of the Eagles' 2006 premiership side and still managed to receive 20 disposals during the game, despite playing with detached ligaments in his foot. In August of the same year, the much bigger Fraser Gehrig, considered to be one of the strongest players in the AFL,Footy's strongest man from realfooty.com.au tried to palm off a tackle by Kerr, only to have Kerr resist and re-tackle Gehrig, with the result seeing the umpire reward Kerr with a "holding the ball" decision. In 2007, Kerr had another great year with the Eagles.
Sollers described the origins of Paradis as being traceable to a "creative rage" that first resulted in his book Lois, which marked a departure from the "slightly obsessive ascetic" mode in which he wrote his books Drame and Nombres, books which he characterized as representing a "period of research into the disposition of writing methods." Sollers said of the book's title, Paradis: > [It] implies a rewriting of Dante's Paradiso, but it's a paradise that has > changed a good deal since Dante's time. Perhaps the phrase which best gives > the sense of my title is a sentence from Sade, who says, "Everything is > paradise in this hell." I am off to palm off as pleasurable, or at least > acceptable, all that would ordinarily be more disturbing, both spiritually > and physically.
He even questioned himself, more often than not, when critically examining historical texts, asking how they were obtained, who had written them and when, and for what purpose. Being pitilessly conscientious and of cynical, sharp wit, Ruvarac exposed many Montenegrin fables that some wished to palm off as historical facts—either for personal, political gain, dynastic reasons (Habsburgs, Vatican, Ottomans), or simply to flatter their own vanity. Ruvarac ushered in a revision of all historical inconsistencies written by foreigners or inspired by them concerning Serbs of Montenegro and other regions, destroying one ill-conceived legend after another with no less passion than had those who fabricated them in the first place. Ruvarac, like most intellectuals, knew that so-called events can exert influence even though they never occurred.
HMS Severn in Bordeaux, France In October 2014, it was announced that Severn would be the first River- class vessel to deploy overseas to take up the Atlantic Patrol Tasking North, a task traditionally assigned to a frigate or destroyer. Arriving in the Caribbean, Severn patrolled the waters of each British Overseas Territory in the region and was on standby to provide any support, ranging from disaster relief to tackling all forms of illicit trafficking. The ship returned to Portsmouth on 16 July 2015, having visited all of the British Overseas Territories in the region. In December 2015, acting on intelligence from the British National Crime Agency and French DNRED, the ship intercepted the MV Carib Palm off the south coast of the United Kingdom and escorted the ship to Boulogne-sur-Mer, France where it was searched by French customs.

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