foist off

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To fraudulently or disingenuously pass (goods, or ideas) on to. transitive
    — She was talking big, but the Haruhi of last year would've forced people to attend an explanatory lecture about the brigade, printed huge numbers of flyers, and foisted them off on absolutely everybody.
  2. To get rid of (something unwanted) by giving it to someone else.
    — When Zeytuna didn't want to do her chores, she foisted them off on Lidya, who'd spent years being her caregiver and took over without a whisper of complaint.

词形变化

foists off present,singular,third-person foisting off participle,present foisted off participle,past foisted off past
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