Meaning of bill of goods | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A list of items purchased or offered for sale; (metonymic) the items themselves, as a collection or set.
2. A set of misleading or deceptive claims.
   idiomatic

Examples

“Near-synonym: bill of sale”

“"This morning," he said, "I foolishly gave Eben a hundred dollars, and sent him to Boston to pay⟳ for a bill of goods which I recently bought of a wholesale house on Milk Street."”

“Near-synonyms: misinformation, disinformation, bullshit; see⟳ also Thesaurus:bullshit”

“Truman bought quite a bill of goods from the old cronies who had flocked to Harriman.”

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