Idiom
bill of goods
Meaning
A set of misleading or deceptive claims.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“The salesman sold me a bill of goods about this broken car.”
“I realized I had been sold a bill of goods when the software failed to perform any of the features promised.”
“The investors felt betrayed after discovering that the company had sold them a bill of goods regarding its actual financial stability.”
Examples
simple
“The salesman sold me a bill of goods about this broken car.”
contextual
“I realized I had been sold a bill of goods when the software failed to perform any of the features promised.”
complex
“The investors felt betrayed after discovering that the company had sold them a bill of goods regarding its actual financial stability.”
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