palm off
Third Person
palms off
Present Participle
palming off
Past Tense
palmed off
Past Participle
palmed off
1
to dispose of something by giving or selling it to someone else though persuasion or deception
- He tried to palm off a fake painting as the real deal.
- The salesman palmed off the expired products at a discounted rate without mentioning the dates.
- During the garage sale, she managed to palm off all those old magazines to a collector.
- I can't believe she palmed off her broken watch on me, saying it was just 'vintage'.
- When the office upgraded its computers, they tried to palm the old ones off to the interns.