Idiom
I have a bridge to sell you
Meaning
An indirect way of expressing that the addressee is gullible.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“If you believe that promise, I have a bridge to sell you.”
“He thinks he can win a million dollars just by clicking that link, but I have a bridge to sell him.”
“When the salesman claimed the used car had never been driven in the rain, I told him he clearly thought I had a bridge to sell me.”
Examples
simple
“If you believe that promise, I have a bridge to sell you.”
contextual
“He thinks he can win a million dollars just by clicking that link, but I have a bridge to sell him.”
complex
“When the salesman claimed the used car had never been driven in the rain, I told him he clearly thought I had a bridge to sell me.”
Origin
In reference to George C. Parker, an infamous conman who successfully duped his victims into “buying” the Brooklyn Bridge.
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