fob

fob1 /fɒb $ fɑːb/ verb (fobbed, fobbing) informal

1 fob somebody ↔ off phrasal verbphr v informal

a) LIE/TELL A LIEto tell someone something that is not true in order to stop them from complaining 〔用借口等〕搪塞，哄骗

with

She fobbed him off with a promise to pay him the money next week.

她答应下周付给他钱，把他敷衍了过去。

b) GIVEto give someone something that is not very good instead of the thing they really want 骗售

with

They tried to fob me off with a cheap camera.

他们试图用一台廉价相机打发我。

Examples from the Corpus

fob off• Confronted in his domestic environment, he would find it more difficult to fob her off.• Madame Weill, a tiny woman in a tailored suit, tried to fob the policeman off.• Gavin repeatedly tried to fob them off and one family has still not been paid.• I hoped the Hall Brothers were not going to try to fob us off by paying us in kind.• She tried to fob him off tactfully at first, but then he became brutal.• They were instructed to fob them off with promises in order to get them back to work as quickly as possible.• It was impossible to fob her off with vague statements - and perhaps unwise.

fob with• It was impossible to fob her off with vague statements - and perhaps unwise.

Examples from the Corpus

fob• It was impossible to fob her off with vague statements - and perhaps unwise.• Confronted in his domestic environment, he would find it more difficult to fob her off.• She tried to fob him off tactfully at first, but then he became brutal.• Convention demanded that a woman must skirt around the truth, fobbing off a man while leading him on.• Madame Weill, a tiny woman in a tailored suit, tried to fob the policeman off.• Gavin repeatedly tried to fob them off and one family has still not been paid.• They were instructed to fob them off with promises in order to get them back to work as quickly as possible.• I hoped the Hall Brothers were not going to try to fob us off by paying us in kind.

fob2 noun [countableC]

1.DCa small object that is fixed to a key ring as a decoration 钥匙圈上的小饰物

From Longman Business Dictionary

fobfob /fɒbfɑːb/ verb (fobbed, fobbing) informal

→ fob somebody → off

→ fob something → off on somebody

FOBFOB

TRANSPORTabbreviation for FREE ON BOARD

→ see under Incoterm

Origin fob1

(1500-1600) fob “to deceive” ((16-19 centuries))

fob2