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bill of goods
[ bil uhv goodz ]
noun
- a quantity or consignment of saleable items, as an order, shipment, etc.
- Informal. a misrepresented, fraudulent, or defective article.
Word History and Origins
Origin of bill of goods1
Idioms and Phrases
- sell someone a bill of goods, Informal. to defraud or deceive someone:
He sold me a bill of goods about that used car.
Example Sentences
Trump also benefits from a general bill of goods Americans were sold long ago: the entirely false idea that Republicans do a better job with the economy.
“I think our diets, nationally, and international probably, show the fact that we just have allowed ourselves to be sold a bill of goods.”
Traditional Unionist Voice leader Jim Allister said it was a "defining moment for unionism" and warned if the post-Brexit rules remained the same then "a false bill of goods was sold to the unionist people".
Steinberg suggests I was sold a bill of goods.
“At the same time, I have sympathy for some of these students because I think they were sold a bill of goods.”
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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