bill of goods

1. 1.

   communication (written or spoken) that persuades someone to accept something untrue or undesirable

   “they tried to sell me a bill of goods about a secondhand car”

   Broadermisrepresentation
2. 2.

   a consignment of merchandise

   Broaderbill

Questions about bill of goods

What does bill of goods mean?

bill of goods means "communication (written or spoken) that persuades someone to accept something untrue or undesirable". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

Is bill of goods a common word?

bill of goods is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.