palm sb off with sth
— phrasal verb with palm uk/pɑːm/us/pɑːm/verb [ T ]
to give someone an untrue or unsatisfactory answer, or to give someone something that has no value in order to try to satisfy them and make them go away:
You're not going to palm me off with that feeble excuse.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Giving, providing and supplying
- accommodate
- accord
- administer
- administration
- assignment
- award
- deliver
- go round (somewhere)
- hand sth around
- hand sth back
- hand sth in
- hand sth out
- invest
- lay
- spare
- step
- step forward
- supplier
- supply
- supply chain
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