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palm off (third-person singular simple present palms off, present participle palming off, simple past and past participle palmed off)

1. (idiomatic) To sell or dispose of (something) with the intent to deceive; to attempt to pass off a counterfeit or inferior product as genuine.

   Synonyms: pawn off, pass off; foist, fob off; unload, offload

   • 1871, Mark Twain, Journalism In Tennessee‎:

     The inveterate liars of the Semi-Weekly Earthquake are evidently endeavoring to palm off upon a noble and chivalrous people another of their vile and brutal falsehoods […]

   • 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 18]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:

     […] the old mangy parcel he sent at Xmas a cottage cake and a bottle of hogwash he tried to palm off as claret that he couldnt get anyone to drink […]

   • 1963, United States Code Annotated‎:

     (p.359) […] no one is to be allowed fraudulently to palm off upon the public his goods as those of another.
     (p.379) It is a fundamental rule that one man has no right to palm off his goods for sale as goods of a rival dealer […]

使用する際の注意点

Sometimes appears as pawn off, though this is frequently proscribed as an error. Some dictionaries have begun to recognize this form, and some have noted that the phrase pawn upon even predates palm off. Often, pawn off differs slightly in meaning, not carrying the same connotations of trickery as palm off.

The buyer is usually given as the object of "on" or "upon." So, "palm (something) off on (someone)"

参考

• pam off
• reverse palming off

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