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bill of goods

noun

a quantity or consignment of salable items, as an order, shipment, etc.

Informal. a misrepresented, fraudulent, or defective article.

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sell (someone) a bill of goods, to defraud or deceive someone: He sold me a bill of goods about that used car.

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Origin:
1925–30

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bill of goods
noun
1.	communication (written or spoken) that persuades someone to accept something untrue or undesirable; "they tried to sell me a bill of goods about a secondhand car"
2.	a consignment of merchandise

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"Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they were so often patsies for the ruling classes in nineteenth-century France and England, or twentieth-century Russia and America."

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