be sold a bill of goods
be sold a bill of goods
To be led to believe that a lie is true; to be swindled or conned. So you told me you would study harder if I got you that new video game, but your grades got even worse. Looks like I've been sold a bill of goods!
See also: bill, good, of, sold
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
be sold a bill of goods
AMERICANIf you are sold a bill of goods, you are deceived or told something that is not true. I began to realize that I'd been sold a bill of goods, that I wasn't in any way incompetent or lazy.
See also: bill, good, of, sold
Collins COBUILD Idioms Dictionary, 3rd ed.
- get screwed
- don't take any wooden nickels
- accept a wooden nickel
- con (someone) out of (something)
- con out of
- con into
- con (someone) into (something)
- scammered
- get burned (by someone)
- never give a sucker an even chance