10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SELL SOMEONE A PUP»
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Oxford Dictionary of English Idioms
... will have bought it by selling liberal principles short. sell someone a bill of
goods: see BILL. sell someone a dummy: see DUMMY. sell the family silver: see
FAMILY. sell someone a pup: see PUP. sell someone down the river: see RIVER.
sell ...
self-willed (derog) determined to do, or have, what one wants: / can 't control that
child — he's so self-willed. sell sell (someone) a pup see pup. sell (someone)
down the river see river. a sell-out (inf) 1 an event, esp a concert, for which all the
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Oxford Dictionary of Word Origins
To sell someone a pup is to swindle them, especially by selling them something
that is Worth far less than they expect. This dates from the early 20th century and
was presumably based on the idea of dishonestly selling someone a young and
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Oxford Dictionary of English
... someone a (or the) dummy see DUMMY. sell the pass see PASS2. sell
someone a pup see PUP. sell someone/thing short see SHORT. sell one's soul (
to the devil) do or be willing to do anything, no matter how wrong it is, in order to
achieve ...
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Dog The Wag: Professor Marvin's Dogged Pursuit of Canine ...
... get something that is far less than expected and/or paid lor ORIGINS AND
HISTORY: Criminal slang of the carlv the twentieth century — and as such,
originally expressing the same event from the opposite viewpoint: "to sell
someone a pup" ...
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A Dictionary of Catch Phrases
Cf the slangy to sell someone a pup, to swindle him. don't shit in your (or the)
mess-kit! and don't fall back in it! Don't foul your own nest: US: since c. 1942. (A.B.
, 1978.) don't shit the troops! See: you wouldn't shit me. don't shoot the pianist!
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Little Red Book of Idioms and Phrases
... punch Anticipate or forestall someone's actions Sell someone a pup Swindle
someone, especially byselling them something thatisworthless In purdah In
seclusion Pure and simple And nothing else Pure as the driven snow Completely
pure ...
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The Wordsworth Thesaurus: For Home, Office and Study
... deceive, defraud, diddle, do, dupe, finagle, financier, fleece, grift, gyp, hand
someone a lemon, homswoggle, overcharge, ramp, rip off, rook, sell smoke, sell
someone a pup, skelder, trick. n . chicanery, con, deceit, deception, double-
dealing, ...
Wordsworth, William, 1993
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The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
... 'courage'. sell someone a pup swindle someone, especially by selling
something worthless. The idea is that the purchaser has been given an inflated
perception of a useless object's potential or future value. Purana any of a class of
Sanskrit ...
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Englesko-srpski Frazeološki Rečnik: L-Z
(a) bum steer to sell someone a pup coll. x podmetnuti kome lavle pod goluba;
dati babu za nevestu; nasamariti koga; podvaliti kome x When I came home and
tried the video recorder, I found that it didn't work and realized that I'd been sold a
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