bill of goods
English
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Noun
editbill of goods (plural bills of goods)
- (business) A collection of items purchased or offered for sale.
- 1884, Horatio Alger, chapter 18, in Do and Dare:
- "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."
- (idiomatic) A set of misleading or deceptive claims; misinformation.
- 1956 August 27, “Harry's Bitter Week”, in Time:
- Truman bought quite a bill of goods from the old cronies who had flocked to Harriman.
Synonyms
edit- (misinformation): bullshit