| They should not be fobbed off with a diet of misleading statements and official denials. |
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| Is God a fool, a simpleton who can be fobbed off with an empty formula of words? |
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| After countless phone calls in which she said she was fobbed off with excuses, Mrs Carter was told it would be done by Friday. |
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| Mark made many attempts to get medical help but his GP fobbed him off by saying that he had a trapped nerve, wind or a back problem! |
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| He could have fobbed it off on the next parliament as so many of his predecessors had done. |
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| Most people who collect art just want generic examples of an artist's work and get confused when non-typical examples are fobbed off on them by dealers and auction houses. |
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| Social Services fobbed us off with excuses for eight months. |
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| Unfortunately our authorities and political system are so wrapped up in institutionalised deceit that we just get fobbed of with any old tosh wrapped up as facts. |
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| Not one to be fobbed off lightly, I demanded to speak to the manager. |
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| They took direction from Laois County Council but we were fobbed off. |
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| When I phoned up, I was fobbed off with a string of excuses. |
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