sell someone a bill of goods

Meaning: (idiomatic)Todeceiveorcheatsomeone.1953June 16, “McCarran Raps Ike Speech at Dartmouth”, inRome News-Tribune, US, retrieved21 June 2009, page 3:"He showed no knowledge of his subject," McCarran told newsmen. ". . . Someone must havesold him a bill of goods."2004February 9, John Cassidy, “Blame Game: Intelligence Services and the Iraq War”, inNew Yorker:Bill O'Reilly, of the Fox News Channel, has called on the President to admit that the CIAsold him a bill of goodsand to fire the agency's director.

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