I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
fob watch
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Confronted in his domestic environment, he would find it more difficult to fob her off.
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Convention demanded that a woman must skirt around the truth, fobbing off a man while leading him on.
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Gavin repeatedly tried to fob them off and one family has still not been paid.
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I hoped the Hall Brothers were not going to try to fob us off by paying us in kind.
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It was impossible to fob her off with vague statements - and perhaps unwise.
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Madame Weill, a tiny woman in a tailored suit, tried to fob the policeman off.
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She tried to fob him off tactfully at first, but then he became brutal.
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They were instructed to fob them off with promises in order to get them back to work as quickly as possible.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
watch
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In the hushed surroundings of a smart restaurant, Boon fiddles enigmatically with a fob watch on a neck chain.
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Catherine opened her coat and looked at her fob watch .