1. They fobbed off our suggestion.

2. She wouldn't be fobbed off this time.

3. Don't be fobbed off with excuses.

4. We thought we'd been fobbed off with inferior goods.

5. The salesman fobbed the lady off with an imitation diamond.

6. Don't be fobbed off by meaningless answers from politicians.

7. The salesman fobbed off the faulty machine on the lady.

8. The salesman fobbed off an imitation diamond on the lady.

9. I won't be fobbed off this time I'm determined to say what I think.

10. The Ossis have been fobbed off with one middling portfolio, transport, and two lightweight ones.

11. And so, last year, he fobbed his house off on a couple of unsuspecting hippies, and split.

12. She had on several occasions fobbed off my clumsy advances with great ease and much friendliness.

13. 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.