salesman

floor salesman

A salesperson who works in the area of a store where merchandise is displayed (the "floor"), keeping items organized and helping customers with questions. Being a floor salesman is exhausting—my feet are killing me, and I'm sick of helping people find things!
See also: floor, salesman

no salesman will call

An assurance that, after an inquiry has been made about the price of something, no one will make direct contact to follow up and try to secure a sale. Our agents are always ready to give you a quotation on the insurance policy that is right for you. If you decide afterward that now isn't the right time, no salesmen will call, so there's absolutely no pressure to sign up.
See also: call, no, salesman, will

snake oil salesman

Someone who sells, promotes, or is a general proponent of some valueless or fraudulent cure, remedy, or solution. (Can also be formed as "saleswoman" or "salesperson.") I find it hard to believe anyone would fall for those snake oil salesmen on TV selling holistic medicines and therapies. A lot of people have been swayed by the presidential candidate's plan for economic growth, but if you ask me, she sounds like a snake oil saleswoman.
See also: oil, salesman, snake
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

no salesman will call

a phrase indicating that no salesman will visit or contact you if you make an inquiry about a product. All inquiries are confidential and no salesman will call.
See also: call, no, salesman, will
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • floor salesman
  • all one's ducks in a row, get/have
  • Eskimo
  • (someone) could sell an icebox to an Eskimo
  • lumber
  • sawdust
  • (someone) could sell sawdust to a lumber mill
  • (someone) could sell ice to Eskimos
  • snack off
  • snack off (of) (something)
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A salesman saw his customer, Mr Jones staring out the window disconsolately.
As soon as the quartet and the salesman reached the parlour, the Bangladeshis shouted at the American, forced him into the flat, locked him inside and took away Dh4,000 and a mobile phone from him.
The video has garnered attention of several people who praised the salesman for his kind act and bravery.
The source said both the salesman and assistant manager have worked at the outlet for at least five years.
The immigration officers were on a routine check for illegal workers when they saw the salesman randomly leaving massage cards on cars.
The Salesman was screened at Cannes Film Festival last summer when it brought two awards for the Iranian Oscar-winning director Farhadi and actor Shahab Hosseini for the best screenplay and the best actor respectively.
His article pointed out that, "The craving to touch is very strongly rooted in human nature." The salesman's sample, which put a product in a potential buyer's hands, was a powerful tool.
It is an Iranian version of Miller's Death of a Salesman. The film explores the themes of marriage, privacy, suspicion, revenge, honor and violence.
A 56-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of six counts of dwelling burglary and assault in connection with a number of reports of a fraudulent door-to-door salesman who was allegedly targeting elderly people in Thornaby and Middlesbrough.
Little is known about the drama, reportedly inspired to some degree by Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman," except that it focuses, like so much of Farhadi's work, around a couple's fractious relationship.
Dubai Court of First Instance was told that the 32-year-old Indian salesman helped a countryman to forge perfumes receipts to con a businessman to buy the perfumes, worth Dhs235,000.
A new Yiddish-language production (with English supertitles) of Death of a Salesman, Miller's most famous play, argues that Miller should be added to the canon of Jewish literature.
A realty salesman had just closed his first deal, only to discover that the piece of land he had sold was completely under water.
Summary: The Tripoli-based car salesman who may have sold the vehicle later used as a truck bomb in the Rafik Hariri assassination was grilled by the defense at the Special Tribunal for Lebanon Friday.
A DOOR to door salesman who went to a pensioner's home ended up being threatened with a knife, it was claimed in court.