It was originally destined for the growing mass of urban proletariat onto which was fobbed this industrial minimum of shallow folklore.
We do not want to be fobbed off with an inadequate reply.
We are fobbed off with the excuse that the landlord paid so many thousands for alterations and so on.
It is no use fobbing us off with light-hearted statements about this.
In the agricultural industry we have been fobbed off with marketing boards.
We do not agree, and cannot agree, that this is a question which can be fobbed off in any way.
We are fobbed off with tales about public taste, what the public will bear and what the public will stand for.
Are we to be fobbed off without passing suggestions of this kind when we are dealing with a subject of this importance?
