palm off: meaning & examples

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Language: English

Meanings:

  • 1.

    Global (US, UK)informalneutral
    • To foist or impose something unwanted or inferior on someone by deceit or evasion.
    • To pass something on to another person in order to avoid responsibility for it.

    Examples

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    • The used car salesman tried to palm off an old, faulty engine on unsuspecting buyers.

      El vendedor de autos usados intentó endilgar un motor viejo y defectuoso a compradores desprevenidos.

    • I won't let them palm off these substandard parts on our assembly line anymore.

      No dejaré que nos impongan estas piezas de calidad inferior en nuestra línea de montaje nunca más.

    • Last week, the company was accused of palming off expired food products to supermarkets.

      La semana pasada, la empresa fue acusada de imponer productos alimenticios caducados a los supermercados.

    • When cheap electronics are palmed off as premium models, customers feel cheated.

      Cuando imponen electrónicos baratos como modelos premium, los clientes se sienten estafados.

  • 2.

    Global (US, UK)informal
    • To present or represent something as being different from what it really is, especially to pass off an inferior or fake item as genuine.

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    • She managed to palm off a counterfeit watch as a genuine Rolex during the street fair.

      Ella logró vender un reloj falso como un Rolex auténtico durante la feria callejera.

    • Don't let him palm off those cheap knockoffs on you claiming they’re designer goods.

      No dejes que te venda esas imitaciones baratas diciendo que son artículos de diseñador.

    • They were caught trying to palm off imitation art pieces as originals at the auction.

      Fueron atrapados intentando pasar piezas de arte imitadas como originales en la subasta.

Examples:

  • EN: What are you trying to palm off on me.
    ES: ¿Qué intentas cargarme?
  • EN: But they did to try to palm off a fake set of accounts on me.
    ES: Pero lo hicieron para intentar endosarme cuentas falsas.
  • EN: You can't palm off a second-rater on me.
    ES: No me pase la segunda opción.
  • EN: And none of this eyewash you're trying to palm off.
    ES: No el agua sucia que diste.
  • EN: My trying to palm off a broken, bitter shell of a man. On a woman who was genuine and honest.
    ES: Había intentado recomponer lo que quedaba de un hombre roto a costa de una mujer auténtica.
  • EN: I accuse Louis of France of deliberately trying... to palm off on the princess of Spain... not a prince of the blood, not the Duke Deschamps, but Monseiur Beaucaire, a common French barber.
    ES: Acuso a Luis de Francia de querer... endosarle a la princesa de España... no a un príncipe de la sangre, no al duque de Chandre... sino a Monsieur Beaucaire, un ordinario barbero francés.
  • EN: Cat, dog, anything that can scratch and bite, As long as it's harmful and mangy enough, Half-dead tiger that you can weep over and palm off
    ES: Perro, gato, todo lo que pueda arañar o morder... mientras sea lo suficientemente perjudicial y sarnoso, un tigre moribundo sobre el que puedes llorar y encajárselo... a algún pobre diablo a tu cuidado... para ocuparse de él y atenderlo por ti.
  • EN: Imagine trying to palm off a thing like that on two experts like us.
    ES: Ha querido engañar a dos expertos como nosotros.
  • EN: Are you trying to palm off some cuckoo-nut on me?
    ES: - Esta tratando de dejarme a un loco? El no es asi.
  • EN: What you palm off on people!
    ES: ¡Lo que le das a la gente!
  • EN: How much more trash is this windbag going to palm off on me?
    ES: ¿Cuánto durarán los engaños de este fanfarrón?
  • EN: I know my stuff, so don't try to palm off any of that junk you have laying around.
    ES: Conozco mis cosas, así que no intentes cambiármelas por tus baratijas.
  • EN: I see. The dead Chinese girl with the thick ankles they tried to palm off on me at the morgue.
    ES: -La china muerta... de los tobillos anchos de la morgue.
  • EN: First you get your foot stuck in your mouth and then you try to palm off some kid as a drummer boy.
    ES: Primero metes la pata y luego... ... intentasenchufarleaunmuchacho como tamborilero.
  • EN: I got a partial print with a tented arch, it's probably a thumb. And the fragment of a palm off the nail of Mrs. Leeds' left big toe.
    ES: He encontrado una huella parcial, probablemente un pulgar, y parte de una palma en la uña del dedo gordo de la Sra. Leeds.
  • EN: What are you trying to palm off on me.
    ES: ¿Qué intentas cargarme?
  • EN: But they did to try to palm off a fake set of accounts on me.
    ES: Pero lo hicieron para intentar endosarme cuentas falsas.
  • EN: You can't palm off a second-rater on me.
    ES: No me pase la segunda opción.
  • EN: And none of this eyewash you're trying to palm off.
    ES: No el agua sucia que diste.
  • EN: My trying to palm off a broken, bitter shell of a man. On a woman who was genuine and honest.
    ES: Había intentado recomponer lo que quedaba de un hombre roto a costa de una mujer auténtica.
  • EN: I accuse Louis of France of deliberately trying... to palm off on the princess of Spain... not a prince of the blood, not the Duke Deschamps, but Monseiur Beaucaire, a common French barber.
    ES: Acuso a Luis de Francia de querer... endosarle a la princesa de España... no a un príncipe de la sangre, no al duque de Chandre... sino a Monsieur Beaucaire, un ordinario barbero francés.

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