sell bargains | Idiomator

Meaning: (idiomatic,obsolete)Tomakesaucy(usuallyindiscreet)comments; tocome onto.Synonym:sell someone a bargain1709,J[ohn] Dryden,J[ohn] Oldham, “(please specify the page)”, inMac Flecknoe: A Poem.[…]With Spencer’s Ghost: Being a Satyr Concerning Poetry.[…], London:[…]H[enry]Hills,[…],→OCLC:Wheresold he Bargains, Whip-stitch, kiss my Arse, / Promis'd a Play and dwindled to a Farce?1731,[Jonathan Swift], “Strephon and Chloe”, inA Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed.[…], Dublin; London:[…][William Bowyer] for J. Roberts[…], published1734,→OCLC,page19:No Maid at Court is leſs aſham'd, / Howe'er forſelling Bargainsfam'd, / Than ſhe, to name her Parts behind, / Or when a-bed, to let out Wind.1759August 25,Samuel Johnson,The Idler, number71:He[…]began to descend to familiar questions, endeavouring to accommodate his discourse to the grossness of rustic understandings. The clowns soon found that he did not know wheat from rye, and began to despise him; one of the boys, by pretending to show him a bird's nest, decoyed him into a ditch; and one of the wenchessold him a bargain.

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