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2021-10-17 12:10
Pawn off phrase
To give a valuable item, such as a house or car to someone lending you money as a way for them to secure that loan.
Their spoiled son has pawned their jewels off.
How dare you pawn my car off to get that money?
To cause another person or group to take responsibility for something you should do or something bad that you have done.
It was clear that he was attempting to pawn the crime off on the victim.
He is always pawning off to another. That's why everyone hates him.
To get rid of something you don't want by giving or selling it to someone in a dishonest way.
The unscrupulous retailer pawning off this fake watch on me has disappeared.
Don't hope to pawn the ragged shirt off on me. I'm not a kid anymore!
To represent someone or oneself falsely as being a dissimilar person from who they actually are.
He pawned himself off as a lunatic in order not to be killed.
The movie pawns our hero in real life off as a villain.
The verb "pawn" must be conjugated according to its tense.
This expression may have originated as a corruption of "palm off," although it was also put as "pawn upon" in the 1700s, when it originated.
Do you see anything wrong?
To argue with somebody
I do not want to bandy words with you about those trivial things.
