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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