Meaning of sell bargains | Babel Free

Definitions

To make saucy (usually indiscreet) comments; to come onto.

idiomatic, obsolete

Examples

“Where sold he Bargains, Whip-stitch, kiss my Arse, / Promis'd a Play⟳ and dwindled to a Farce?”

“No Maid at Court is leſs aſham'd, / Howe'er for ſelling Bargains fam'd, / Than ſhe, to name⟳ her Parts behind, / Or when a-bed, to let⟳ out Wind.”

“He […] began to descend to familiar questions, endeavouring to accommodate his discourse to the grossness of rustic understandings. The clowns soon found that he did not know⟳ wheat from rye, and began to despise him; one of the boys, by pretending to show⟳ him a bird's nest, decoyed him into a ditch; and one of the wenches sold him a bargain.”

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