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bill of goods

noun

Definitions

  1. A list of items purchased or offered for sale

    A list of items purchased or offered for sale; (metonymic) the items themselves, as a collection or set.

    • Near-synonym: bill of 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."

  2. A set of misleading or deceptive claims.

    • Near-synonyms: misinformation, disinformation, bullshit; see also Thesaurus:bullshit
    • Truman bought quite a bill of goods from the old cronies who had flocked to Harriman.

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