"Sell a bill of goods" nghĩa là gì?

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'Sell a bill of goods' = bán một danh sách các vật cần mua -> làm ai tin một lời nói dối hay một lời hứa, lừa gạt ai.

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Williams always taught an intro to physics class: “It’s important for me to do that,” he said. His favorite class was quantum (lượng tử) mechanics, because “that is the last class physics majors take and the one they are least likely to understand. It’s tough to sell a bill of goods that no one understands.”

“These medallion holders (những người nắm giữ 'huy chương taxi' hay một kiểu giấy phép để người lái taxi hoạt động), many of them immigrant (nhập cư) New Yorkers, were sold a bill of goods, mortgaging (thế chấp) their futures after being told a medallion was a certain ticket to the middle class,” the congresswoman told The News.

“It’s important to note that when the president declares (công bố) this emergency (tình trạng khẩn cấp), first of all, it’s not an emergency. What’s happening at the border, it’s a humanitarian (chủ nghĩa nhân đạo) challenge to us. The president has tried to sell a bill of goods. But putting that aside, just in terms of the president making an end run around Congress, here he said let us respect what the committee will do, then walks away from it.”

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