sell bargains
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sell bargains (third-person singular simple present sells bargains, present participle selling bargains, simple past and past participle sold bargains)
- (idiomatic, obsolete) To make saucy (usually indiscreet) comments; to come onto.
- Synonym: sell someone a bargain
- 1709, J[ohn] Dryden, J[ohn] Oldham, “(please specify the page)”, in Mac Flecknoe: A Poem. […] With Spencer’s Ghost: Being a Satyr Concerning Poetry. […], London: […] H[enry] Hills, […], →OCLC:
- Where sold he Bargains, Whip-stitch, kiss my Arse, / Promis'd a Play and dwindled to a Farce?
- 1731, [Jonathan Swift], “Strephon and Chloe”, in A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed. […], Dublin, London: […] [William Bowyer] for J. Roberts […], published 1734, →OCLC, page 19:
- No Maid at Court is leſs aſham'd, / Howe'er for ſelling Bargains fam'd, / Than ſhe, to name her Parts behind, / Or when a-bed, to let out Wind.
- 1759 August 25, Samuel Johnson, The Idler, number 71:
- He […] began to descend to familiar questions, endeavouring to accommodate his discourse to the grossness of rustic understandings. The clowns soon found that he did not know wheat from rye, and began to despise him; one of the boys, by pretending to show him a bird's nest, decoyed him into a ditch; and one of the wenches sold him a bargain.
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References edit
- “bargain”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.