Translation examples
verb
I went on holiday with me nan... and when I come back, he's fobbed us off... with some right swaggy story about how it bit someone over at the park.
Me fui de vacaciones con mi abuela y cuando volví, nos quiso engañar con una historia de que había mordido a alguien en el parque.
they're trying to fob you off with this musical charlatan... but I gave him the test.
Eh, Paul, te quieren engañar. Es un charlatán. Le he puesto a prueba.
You can't fob me off with hocus pocus about emotions.
No me puedes engañar con cuentos sobre las emociones.
‘How soon?’ I asked, determined not to be fobbed off.
—¿Qué significa pronto? —pregunté, decidida a no dejarme engañar.
She recognised in him a man who was far too smart to be fobbed off with the half-truths that were all she could offer him.
Le parecía demasiado listo para dejarse engañar con las medias verdades que eran lo único que ella podía ofrecerle.
CHAPTER 18 Madame Homer If [the critic Desmond MacCarthy] sincerely wishes to discover a great poetess, why does he let himself be fobbed off with a possible authoress of the Odyssey?…
18 Madame Homero Si [el crítico Desmond MacCarthy] desea sinceramente descubrir a una gran poetisa, ¿por qué se deja engañar por la idea de una posible autora para la Odisea?
That was why she refused to be fobbed off with less compensation than she deserved, and why she withdrew her money from the bank just before it crashed, taking with it many local people’s hard-earned savings.
de esta manera, no se dejó engañar cuando le ofrecieron una indemnización mucho menor de la que merecía, e ingresó su dinero en otro banco antes de que el suyo cayera en bancarrota llevándose el fruto de años de trabajo de mucha gente de la comarca.
I spent a couple of minutes anxiously scanning the book of poetry I'd bought last Friday, desperately committing a few scraps of random poems to memory, in the hope that I could fob the teacher off with them.
Pasé un par de minutos ojeando ansiosamente el libro de poesía que había comprado el viernes pasado, tratando de memorizar con desesperación algunos fragmentos de poemas al azar, con la esperanza de poder engañar al profesor con ellos.
verb
I went on. Who knows what garbled version of the thing I tried to fob him off with, but eventually, after much delicate easing aside of fig leaves, he penetrated to the fact that the person with whom I had committed impure actions was a married woman.
Quién sabe qué versión tergiversada intenté endosarle, pero lentamente, tras mucho apartar con delicadeza las hojas de parra, penetré en el hecho de que la persona con quien había cometido actos impuros era una mujer casada.
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