Exempel på fob

• 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?

• Therefore, do not let us be fobbed off again.

• Is she aware that her answer today will be regarded as a mere fob off, as have all answers in the past eight years?

• Fob off the pensioners with the absolute legal minimum with which one can get away.

• We are not inclined to be "fobbed off" with an evasive reply.

• He has tried to fob off these questions with generalities.

• But the craven consensus fobbed us off with trivial party sniping and phoney polarisation.

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