Sell-someone-a-pup Definition

verb
(UK) To sell something of little worth, pretending that it is something else of greater value.
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Origin of Sell-someone-a-pup

  • From an old swindle, where one would be sold a bag purportedly containing a piglet, but which actually contained a puppy. Compare pig in a poke.

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