| 单词 | fob off |
| 例句 | Chain email is not “effort,” unless your idea of effort is, say, to fob off unwanted gifts. What’s wrong with just being friends with hubby’s grown kids? 2014-08-31T04:00:00Z The party wanted to fob off its leftish activists by telling them that Labour's behaviour had made a deal impossible, and to use sham talks to extract more concessions from the Conservatives. 5 Days in May: The Coalition and Beyond by Andrew Adonis – review 2013-05-13T07:00:03Z These are less exalted drives, but in their own way they are implacable, not to be fobbed off once invoked. All That Follows by Jim Crace 2010-04-10T23:07:00Z Some have argued that popular is a phoney award, and this year, a way of fobbing off Black Panther. At last, an Oscar for popular film. Because who needs another The Shape Of Water? | Hadley Freeman 2018-08-18T04:00:00Z The child is fobbed off with happiness when what she really wants is to get her appetite back. Adam Phillips on the happiness myth 2010-09-03T23:06:00Z Chain e-mail is not “effort,” unless your idea of effort is, say, to fob off unwanted gifts. Carolyn Hax: When the children are adults, stepmom is a title that has to be earned He never replied to my effusive letters and I would call his shared house and get fobbed off by strangers to a background soundtrack of grownup carousing. My grimly inappropriate boyfriend dumped me in the pub | Emma Beddington 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z And what little film was fobbed off with best sound effects editing? At last, an Oscar for popular film. Because who needs another The Shape Of Water? | Hadley Freeman 2018-08-18T04:00:00Z The occult, the creepy, the just plain weird: this is exactly the kind of thing that ordinary detectives fob off onto the Peculiar Crimes team, if they possibly can. 'Bryant & May and the Bleeding Heart,' by Christopher Fowler 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z But perhaps what’s most shocking is that her parents, Marie and Jim, were fobbed off and belittled time after time by staff of the very healthcare system they so desperately hoped could help her. ‘I can’t fight anorexia any more. I’ve tried so hard’ 2017-06-10T04:00:00Z Jackson spends so much time fobbed off on a neighboring Hispanic family that he starts speaking Spanish. Rachel Kushner’s ‘The Mars Room’ Offers a Blackly Comic Take on Prison Life 2018-05-07T04:00:00Z “The old Whitney building was just a dead weight, a suffocation,” he wrote, that the museum “had managed to fob off” on the Museum of Modern Art. ‘Friday File’: The Whitney Museum’s 1966 Opening 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z Is it really sustainable for them to fob off questions about it with non-answers for weeks on end? Chris Mason: Big decisions await as HS2 row simmers on 2023-09-25T04:00:00Z "You basically are fobbed off and told to talk to a different office," Ms Crow says. Thousands lose benefits after tax credits overpaid 2023-08-29T04:00:00Z Parents of babies attacked by nurse Lucy Letby received a "total fob off" from a hospital boss when they pleaded for answers, their lawyer has said. Lucy Letby: Parents accuse ex-hospital boss of 'total fob off' 2023-08-23T04:00:00Z However, she said, her request for an inquiry had been "fobbed off". Katie Waissel says her mental health was 'ridiculed' by X Factor staff 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z Yet many of the movement’s proposed solutions fob off parental responsibilities onto those public servants. Opinion | The parents’ rights movement keeps ducking parental responsibilities 2023-04-10T04:00:00Z Plus, stored furniture doesn’t always fare well unless fussily packed and cared for — a job you fobbed off on your sister. Advice | Carolyn Hax: Family treasures in ‘storage’ actually went to the dump 2023-02-06T05:00:00Z Endo Warriors NI said women who had the disease have had "enough of being fobbed off" and too many are being "permanently damaged". Endometriosis surgery delay 'caused irreversible damage' 2022-10-25T04:00:00Z Too many women feel fobbed off or not listened to when they raise concerns about their health, according to a women's health campaign group. Women's symptoms ignored by GPs - campaigners 2022-09-27T04:00:00Z Frustrated with being fobbed off, I pushed to see a different doctor. Melanoma: 'Doctors said my cancerous mole was fungus' 2022-08-11T04:00:00Z "Talk, ask the questions don't be fobbed off, it's about listening to your body", said Rachel Young, 50, The Menopause Mind Expert, a psychotherapist, counsellor and mother-of-five from Riseley in Bedfordshire. Menopause: The Bedfordshire NHS clinic that is "changing lives" 2022-03-21T04:00:00Z "I probably had signs of adenomyosis from very young, but I was fobbed off by doctors and was put on the pill." Adenomyosis: 'You're worth more than your womb' 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z Laura says she was "fobbed off" by some healthcare professionals who, she says, dismissed her condition and recommended laxatives for one of her symptoms - constipation. Anxiety link to irritable bowel syndrome seen in DNA - research 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z But the feeling of being fobbed off has cropped up in countless conversations with women whether it be in relation to a heart attack, UTI, stroke, autism or even brain tumour. Women's symptoms ignored by GPs - campaigners 2022-09-27T04:00:00Z Greenpeace accuses the French nuclear industry of fobbing off waste on other countries and covering up problems at nuclear facilities, which industry officials deny. Is it green, or forever toxic? Nuclear rift at climate talks 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z Workers in England and Wales are being fobbed off with a "stingy" number of bank holidays, say trades unions. Give UK workers four more bank holidays a year, says TUC 2021-08-29T04:00:00Z Ms Palmizi said she felt lucky people sat nearby were wearing masks, but felt "fobbed off" after complaining to TfW, who said British Transport Police were putting on patrols. Covid: Safety fears as face-mask rules 'ignored on Welsh trains' 2021-08-14T04:00:00Z Wild said he raised concerns with a security steward but was “fobbed off.” Inquiry slams security faults before Manchester Arena attack 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z In Missouri, what did those who pushed for Medicaid expansion think would happen when the cost was fobbed off on the conservative Legislature? Editorial Roundup: Missouri 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z Mr Agha also denied he “fobbed off” Christopher Wild, who spoke to him about Abedi being in the foyer at 22:15 BST. Manchester Arena bomber did not look suspicious, steward says 2020-10-26T04:00:00Z The tactic was employed against a man accused of fobbing off a counterfeit $20 bill, and whose death was captured in a widely disseminated video. Was That a Firecracker or a Gunshot? Unpredictability on America’s Streets 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z Instead, investors are being fobbed off with vague aspirations that don’t tackle Shell’s monstrous carbon footprint and pass the buck to Shell’s customers to offset their emissions,” he said. Shell unveils plans to become net-zero carbon company by 2050 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z He fobbed off business to competitors, an unusual practice in the cutthroat world of Kathmandu tanker men, and even sounded out a mechanic about converting a flatbed truck into a new tanker. The Merchants of Thirst 2020-01-11T05:00:00Z I have never read any major news story so inappropriately world-weary — and so willing to fob off the press’ failures on the public. Press Watch: New York Times' political coverage implodes — at the worst possible moment 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z In what’s been criticised as a fundraising scam, winners are fobbed off with photo opportunities or nothing at all. Let’s stop praising men who deign to date women almost their own age | Barbara Ellen 2019-11-09T05:00:00Z It will no longer be good enough for politicians to fob off voters with the idea that globalisation is an unstoppable force of nature against which they are powerless. Globalisation as we know it will not survive Trump. And that’s a good thing | Larry Elliott 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z "It's an easy way to fob off a case," Mr Kelcey said. What's happening to rape prosecutions? 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z "But on both the doctor's visits she was not taken seriously and fobbed off with antibiotics with no real effort of diagnosis or urgency." Girl dies day after cancer diagnosis 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z But he fobbed off any responsibility by saying, “I was a little bit busy running around the country.” Being a Democrat nowadays means having to say you’re sorry … a lot 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z They put off replacement, defer maintenance and fob off concerns all in the name of “saving money” until something does happen. Without a Trump Infrastructure Plan, an Aging Ohio Bridge Is in Limbo 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z He said the party would not be fobbed off with guarantees in a political deal between the EU and the UK that would accompany any Brexit deal. Brexit: DUP threatens to pull plug on Theresa May's government 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z Tycoons who had once fobbed off bankers are now getting turfed out of companies they had held onto for decades despite repeated defaults. A new bankruptcy code is reshaping Indian business 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z Mr Davies said he would not be "fobbed off by white collar civil servants". Court threat over Sargeant report debate 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z Still, he served us a half-dozen mouthfuls of different Pinots and we bought a bottle of the least distasteful to fob off at the next dinner party. Perspective | California may be the anti-Washington, but I think I found some common ground 2018-04-08T04:00:00Z The devil is in the detail, so claimants who are unwilling to push the airlines for evidence will inevitably be fobbed off. How to ensure Ryanair foots the bill for flight delays 2018-02-14T05:00:00Z “So 6 percent is appropriate and we won’t be fobbed off with 2 percent,” he said. Some 10,000 Daimler employees strike in push for higher wages 2018-01-16T05:00:00Z "Too often, the public are fobbed off by big corporations and they simply can't be bothered. It's about challenging poor standards so they're improved." Bailiffs pursued rail firm over payout 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z Far be it from me to suggest the FBI was just looking for an easy way to fob off Obama... Behold the Master Conspirator 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z I just felt like I was getting fobbed off to be quite honest. Unpaid child maintenance backlog in UK is £3.8bn - BBC News 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z And in December he was fobbed off until February, when he was finally given a preliminary interview. ‘I've tried to find a way to enjoy this life’: Syrian refugees one year on 2016-04-30T04:00:00Z “So 6 percent is appropriate and we won’t be fobbed off with 2 percent,” he said. Some 10,000 Daimler employees strike in push for higher wages 2018-01-16T05:00:00Z "Certainly, in my experience, patients do not get fobbed off. They don't want to wait for an operation. They say, 'I can't play a round of golf or tennis and I want to.'" Rise in hip replacements for under-60s - BBC News 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z Those social groups that were happy in their own nation-states or in their traditional welfare states found themselves increasingly neglected or, worse, fobbed off with election rhetoric and forgotten between elections. Election 2016: The Life of the Party 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z She fobbed off every attempt to get her to write her memoirs. She used absurd means to save herself in the absurd times of Nazi Germany 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z But despite repeated attempts to alert management to the problems, he was fobbed off, he claims. Rebekah Brooks' ex-security boss vows to blow whistle 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z In extracts published in the Daily Telegraph at the weekend, he said he was "fobbed off" by NHS doctors but was later diagnosed with cancer after a scan at a private hospital. Farage: Go private if you can pay 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z “Amazon simply responded by telling us how well they treat their ‘permanent staff’ and they didn’t even comment on the living wage,” she told Newsweek, “It was a fob off”. Amazon Faces Losses of £2m as People Pledge to Shop Elsewhere A former employee of the Liverpool sales companies told Shari Vahl from "You & Yours" that staff were frequently told to fob off pension members - many of whom became increasingly desperate. Pension funds unaccounted for 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z Mr Redwood said England should not be "fobbed off" with anything less. Redwood leads English Parliament call 2014-09-15T04:00:00Z Since we’re doing the demanding it seems moral to me that we should be doing the paying: rather than fobbing off that cost onto those who are affected by the minimum wage. It's Transfers Not Minimum Wages That Raise The Incomes Of The Poor 2014-08-23T04:00:00Z The Haggler is unaware of any major corporation using Turing-optimized software and, in effect, fobbing off the algorithm as a person. The Computerized Voice That Wasn’t 2014-05-24T04:00:00Z But it will not be easy to fob off the government’s online critics. Bashtagging the president 2014-04-24T04:00:00Z "Can they use the carparks in the village for recovery centers? What will be the time to take from this venue to this venue? "All of those things, they're being fobbed off. Rio Olympic preparations 'worst' ever : Coates 2014-04-29T20:24:16Z The latest Guardian Money reader to ask an airline for compensation following a long delay – only to be fobbed off – is Steve Moulton-Brady. Airline compensation: law firm flies to aid of delayed passengers 2013-06-15T06:00:25Z Another complaint also led to the department "being fobbed off" by the mother, the report found, and an opportunity was missed to assess what was taking place. Chances missed in insemination case 2013-06-05T08:23:37Z They went to local Lib Dem MP Andrew George, who asked the company and the trust to investigate but was fobbed off. Who will hold NHS contractors like Serco to account? 2013-04-23T18:30:01Z We've just been fobbed off, told: 'It's something for the future.' Coventry City 1-0 Doncaster Rovers 2013-03-29T17:03:18Z One wonders how long the supporters, the board and the local media can be fobbed off with such transparent rhetoric. Armin Veh ready to jump ship after sailing Eintracht into calmer waters 2013-03-18T17:13:26Z We tried to put it right with many phone calls to Lloyds TSB, where he was variously misinformed and fobbed off. No credit due to husband who hid debt 2013-03-18T07:00:03Z The priority is the mortgage, because you can't fob off the bank. In Jerez, sherry and flamenco has turned to soup and indignados 2013-03-07T21:24:42Z In Stack, it managed to fob off a nuclear bomb to the Taiwanese bank. DealBook: Financial Crisis Suit Suggests Bad Behavior at Morgan Stanley 2013-01-23T17:10:56Z They have never been happy with being fobbed off with civil unions. Gay marriage: To have and to hold 2012-11-15T16:05:22Z Two years later the DJ Trinity released Clark Shoe Skank, in which his attempts to buy a proper pair are thwarted and he is fobbed off with a "pointed-toe" alternative. Clarks, the shoes that tap to Jamaica's reggae beat 2012-10-27T23:10:58Z That could explain one of the undercurrents of the discussion; the number of Conservatives who veered between semi-agreeing and wondering whether they were really being fobbed off, just when they feel they're winning the argument. New thinking on Europe 2012-09-18T15:11:15Z He also branded the decision "outrageous", particularly after he was fobbed off with tickets for football, among the least regarded events of the Games. London Olympics 2012: the Voice wins victory after stadium snub 2012-07-18T15:15:32Z Shareholders concluded that they were being fobbed off. Shareholder spring is offering even more sport than usual 2012-05-17T19:14:10Z To fob off bad for good, that was it. Voices from the Past 2012-04-19T02:00:30.787Z Vain, too, was his attempt to fob off his rebellious subordinate with the reluctance of the King. Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections 2012-01-02T03:00:18.893Z "Communities such as the Berbers are quite clear that, this time, they will not be fobbed off with third rate infrastructure and services and crumbs from the resources table." Analysis: Race for the spoils may stir Libya rifts 2011-10-21T15:02:19Z The Palestinians “are not going to be fobbed off” but ‘there is a machinery at the UN,’’ Blair said in an interview with Charlie Rose on Bloomberg Television. Palestinians May Delay Call for Quick UN Vote on Statehood Bid 2011-09-21T18:05:01Z Nor can the campaign be fobbed off, as every politician must know by now. Two decades on from Hillsborough and Liverpool is still in the dark 2011-08-20T21:54:02Z Great curiosity was shown about this performance, and there was a great scramble for places; and, although inserts for nearly three weeks, we were fobbed off with very bad seats in the orchestra. The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton Volume I 2011-05-22T02:00:16.657Z What wonder then that Newcastle's choice fell on Fox, who at any rate could not be fobbed off by stories of the King's insurmountable repugnance and who was the favourite of the King's favourite son? Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections 2012-01-02T03:00:18.893Z And they won't be fobbed off with shrugs and excuses as easily as Mubarak was. Mideast Peace Envoy George Mitchell Resigns 2011-05-14T00:03:07Z That includes information that IS information, not some type of fob off excuse that something is down! Sony Scandal: PlayStation Network Down for Fifth Day 2011-04-25T23:19:40Z Most people in his position would have fobbed off the wannabe, or called security, but one morning Redknapp surrendered to the man's relentless enthusiasm. Harry Redknapp can turn into one of the masters of the European stage 2011-04-02T23:17:16Z This embassy had been at first fobbed off, but finally the regalia were sent him in token of full recognition of his authority. A Short History of Italy (476-1900) 2011-02-24T03:01:00.630Z In September last year the Financial Services Authority warned banks to stop "fobbing off" customers with standard rejection letters without properly investigating complaints. Lloyds customer complaints rise to 2,000 a day 2011-02-23T13:39:08Z Commons and Lords rarely strayed beyond party posturing, terrified to seem "unpatriotic" when fobbed off with the language of the war on terror. Like all inquiries, Chilcot is a pageant, too late to matter 2011-01-18T20:30:01Z Managers who no longer have anyone to manage are fobbed off with inflated titles, much as superannuated politicians are made Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster or Lord President of the Council. Schumpeter: Too many chiefs 2010-06-24T11:19:00Z They would reduce Wall Street's tendency to take huge risks, pocket the wins, and fob off the losses on the public. Three reforms the White House shouldn't oppose 2010-05-10T13:11:00Z China will now get Peugeot’s latest models, as opposed to the older vehicles it used to be fobbed off with. The reinvention of Peugeot: Pert ambition 2010-04-15T10:52:00Z We thought there was something wrong, but we were fobbed off by the doctor. 2010-01-09T00:59:00Z Patience—had he such patience to wait when her mother lived, or did he fob off Miles Avenon her father upon that fool's adventure wherein he was presently slain, as Uriah was slain, Bathsheba's man? Idonia: A Romance of Old London His grievance was this: that while a rival show across the river had been accorded a military picket by the War Office, he had been fobbed off with a mere guard of Special Constables. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, October 14, 1914 It was calm and hot, and seeing he would not be fobbed off, we started. Stories of Authors, British and American She, however, maintained that I ought to have mentioned that I was an affianced, and have refused to sit at any banquet at which she was fobbed off with a cold shoulder. Baboo Jabberjee, B.A. And now, after all this, to be fobbed off with a bow by "Gentleman George," the "fat friend" of poor Brummell, was indeed a little too bad. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866 I complained several times that the job could be easily done by a general duties type but was constantly fobbed off.�� Coming of Age: 1939-1946 I'm not going to be fobbed off with a mere excuse, Ainley. A Mating in the Wilds This explanation of the rite is fobbed off on the women, who more or less believe it and weep accordingly when their sons are led away to be committed to the monster's jaws. The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia Well, I ne'er acted part in all my life, But still I was fobbed off with some such wife. The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 06 "When you was at what?" insisted Bross, declining to be fobbed off with any such flimsy evasion. The Day of Days An Extravaganza If you wanted a cream bun and got fobbed off with a scone! Nocturne But 'tis a paltry hat This Haberdasher would fob off on thee. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, December 12, 1891 But I feel that the writer who was perhaps the greatest essayist that England has ever produced must not in these letters be fobbed off with so slight a notice and quotation. The Glory of English Prose Letters to My Grandson Collins lived in a more reticent century, and attempted to fob off a disease on us as an accomplishment. The Art of Letters But always one is fobbed off with a large white egg of demonstrative uncomeliness. The Pleasures of Ignorance Marcel added, while Bourke gasped for breath, that the gentleman in question had spoken to him alone, in the absence of other waiters, and had been fobbed off with a lie. The Lone Wolf A Melodrama If an under-sheriff had arrested Harry Martin for debt, and pleaded that he did not imprison his membership, but his Martinship, would the Committee for privileges be fobbed off with that distinction? The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Instead of which, the critic proceeds, we are fobbed off with a storm-scene, a rescue, and other sensational incidents, and hear no word of what passes between the villain and his victim. Play-Making A Manual of Craftsmanship But her mother was not to be fobbed off so, for she quickly overtook her child and gripping her by the scruff began to drag her along with her. Lady into Fox I do not think Labour and intelligent people anywhere are going to be fobbed off with an old-fashioned diplomatic gathering as being that League of Free Nations they demand. In the Fourth Year Anticipations of a World Peace Sometimes they turn market-gardeners and fob off the interviewer with remarks about caterpillars. Without Prejudice A cheat, trick, or contrivance, I will not be fobbed off so; I will not be thus deceived with false pretences. 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue This time he was not to be fobbed off with bluster and posturing. Denzil Quarrier Loudon must have told this man the story with which he had been fobbed off about the half-witted Kennedy relative. Huntingtower We may, therefore, dispense with the tedious and unsatisfactory explanations which, if we may trust Ovid, the wily Janus himself fobbed off an anxious Roman enquirer. The Golden Bough Was there ever, I wonder, an historian so pure as not to have wished just once to fob off on his readers just one bright fable for effect? Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story Well, I'll hear it, sir; yet you must not think to fob off our disgrace with a tale: but, an't please you, deliver. Coriolanus But Smuts, whose notions of liberalism were patronizingly segregationist, fobbed off Lloyd George with an ingenuous reply. Native Life in South Africa |
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