bill of goods

bill of goods
a) A collection of items purchased or offered for 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."

b) A set of misleading or deceptive claims; misinformation.

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


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  • sell a bill of goods — sell (someone) a bill of goods American to make someone believe something that is not true. Politicians have sold all of us a bill of goods, that if we put more people in prison we re going to be safer. The electrician said I d need the outdoor… …   New idioms dictionary

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