fob

 Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++fob1 /fɒb $ fɑːb/ verb (fobbed, fobbing) informal  1 fob somebody ↔ off phrasal verb informal a) LIE/TELL A LIEto tell someone something that is not true in order to stop them from complaining 〔用借口等〕搪塞，哄骗 with She fobbed him off with a promise to pay him the money next week. 她答应下周付给他钱，把他敷衍了过去。b) GIVEto give someone something that is not very good instead of the thing they really want 骗售 with They tried to fob me off with a cheap camera. 他们试图用一台廉价相机打发我。→ See Verb table

Examples from the Corpus

fob• It was impossible to fob her off with vague statements - and perhaps unwise.• Confronted in his domestic environment, he would find it more difficult to fob her off.• She tried to fob him off tactfully at first, but then he became brutal.• Convention demanded that a woman must skirt around the truth, fobbing off a man while leading him on.• Madame Weill, a tiny woman in a tailored suit, tried to fob the policeman off.• Gavin repeatedly tried to fob them off and one family has still not been paid.• They were instructed to fob them off with promises in order to get them back to work as quickly as possible.• I hoped the Hall Brothers were not going to try to fob us off by paying us in kind.fob2 noun [countable]  1.DCa small object that is fixed to a key ring as a decoration 钥匙圈上的小饰物From Longman Business Dictionaryfobfob /fɒbfɑːb/ verb (fobbed, fobbing) informal → fob somebody → off → fob something → off on somebody→ See Verb tableFOBFOB TRANSPORTabbreviation for FREE ON BOARD → see under IncotermOrigin fob1 (1500-1600) fob “to deceive” ((16-19 centuries)) fob2 (1600-1700) Perhaps from German fuppe “pocket”

fob1 verbfob2 nounChinese  

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fob¹ /fɒb $ fɑːb/ verb (past tense and past participle fobbed, present participle fobbing) informal
     
fob somebody ↔ off phrasal verb
  1. to tell someone something that is not true in order to stop them from complaining
    fob somebody ↔ off with
    She fobbed him off with a promise to pay him the money next week.
  2. to give someone something that is not very good instead of the thing they really want
    fob somebody ↔ off with
    They tried to fob me off with a cheap camera.

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fob² noun [countable]a small object that is fixed to a key ring as a decoration

FOBBrE /ˌef əʊ ˈbiː/ 🔊NAmE /ˌef oʊ ˈbiː/ 🔊 noun (becoming old-fashioned, informal, offensive, especially NAmE) the abbreviation for 'fresh off the boat' (a person who has recently come to a country as an immigrant and does not speak or behave like people who have lived there a long time) 新移民（全写为 fresh off the boat，指其不谙当地语言以及尚未融入当地社会）