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Перевод: fob

[существительное]
кармашек для часов ; трюк ;
[глагол]
обманывать; надувать

Тезаурус:

1. Frank tried to fob me off.
2. They were instructed to fob them off with promises in order to get them back to work as quickly as possible.
3. Oscar Wilde had his Algernon Moncrieff in The Importance of Being Earnest (1895) - the original four-act version - fob off the solicitor Gribsby who came to serve a writ on him, with frivolous repartee.
4. Besides manuscripts, photographs, letters, books and a portrait of the Master by Burne-Jones, it contains James's French writing desk, two Chippendale chairs, a Sheraton side-table and, equally elegant, one of his silver-mounted walking sticks, a Georgian wine decanter, a gold cigar cutter and his gold fob watch.
5. Catherine opened her coat and looked at her fob watch.
6. This a bedroom key for receptacle which turns on energy systems only when the fob is inserted - and turns them off again when the guest takes the key out to leave the room.
7. I am sure that all these thrusting executives are not going to kick away this trusty old crutch and fob millions of women off with something unsuitable like, oh, say, (what can we think of?) a string of old Irishmen singing maudlin songs for hours on end."
8. Mortimer Cropper was in the habit of drawing Randolph Henry Ash's large gold watch from an inner fob pocket, and arranging his time by Ash's timepiece.
9. THE GUEST WHO COMES TO STAY FOB A FEW DAYS You have to know, or find out, what foods your guest likes and loathes - otherwise the entire stay will be an embarrassing misery.
10. Dear Harsnet, he wrote, you may keep your door closed and not answer when I ring the bell, you may refuse to answer my letters or return my calls when I leave a message on your answering machine, but sooner or later we are bound to meet and this time I will not let you fob me off with a smile.
11. In the hushed surroundings of a smart restaurant, Boon fiddles enigmatically with a fob watch on a neck chain.
12. The guests milled round in confusion; Madame Weill, a tiny woman in a tailored suit, tried to fob the policeman off.
13. She tried to fob him off tactfully at first, but then he became brutal.