Sentences with phrase «pawning off»

That amount could let you get by without pawning off valuables, selling your blood or leaning on the generosity of a friend or relative.

I imagine being able to take on the role of a black market smuggler, pawning off warp drives to intrepid explorers yearning to move closer to the center of the universe.

So I'm going to look at their levels and then I'm also going to look at what I can do instead of pawning it off on someone else and having someone else do my job.

Do you think it's okay to trick people by creating fake profiles and then pawning them off as real members?

And my kids will thank you because I will no longer cut our sledding trips short and pawning off the blame on one of them (oooooh... Enid, are your fingers cold sweetheart?

And yes, Alessio Cerci is here too, offering further confirmation that Atletico have resigned themselves to holding onto him until at least the January window before pawning him off on some poor, unsuspecting Italian side.

At least that's who I assume was referenced by, «The Oilers, now potentially pawning off one of their first round pick centers...»?

The Food With the collection of antipasti and the beautiful Emilio Miti meat slicer in one corner, this place isn't pawning off too - salty peanuts as bar snacks.

This time of year, we're all up to our ears in it, throwing squash and zucchini on the grill every other night, making squash casseroles, baking zucchini bread, and pawning it off on our friends and neighbors.

This time of year, we're all up to our ears in it, throwing squash and zucchini on the grill every other night, making squash casseroles, baking zucchini bread, and pawning it off on our -LSB-...]

It's a shame that some pastors have been preaching their own political rhetoric in some churches and pawning it off as the bible / Christianity.

When people see banks browbeating the bond rating agencies and accounting firms to whitewash the quality of what they're pawning off on their customers, when they see bank lobbyists getting Washington to block state prosecutions of financial fraud so as to clear the way for more predatory lending and false packaging of the junk securities they're selling and to win the right not to reveal their true financial position, there's a good reason not to buy what's in these black boxes.

But the «younger» Cho is 40 years old, an age where we can safely own our immaturity, not pawn it off as a consequence of our mishandled upbringing.

(Geez, which philistine's work were they trying to pawn off?

«A lot of companies pawn off their Web presence on the youngest marketing guy in the room,» says Carr.

Instead of being able to easily pawn off more borrowing on the markets - say 90 basis points for a 5 - year note as at present - they may have to pay hundreds of basis points more.

Why couldn't the Fed and Treasury do for Lehman what they did with other Wall Street investment firms and stock brokers: let it reclassify itself as a bank so it could pawn off its junk mortgages at the Fed's discount window for 100 cents on the dollar, sticking taxpayers with the loss?

The problem, of course, is that the securities that Lehman hoped to pawn off were fraudulent junk.

James Surowiecki, writing in the New Yorker, observes that the crisis arose because a number of players misused our trust and made loans to individuals who were not qualified and then pawned off those loans on other buyers, who mistakenly believed them to be low risk.

As for your now hackneyed and absurd whining about «theory», as many others have noted, creationism that you are trying to pawn off here incessantly, is not even a scientific theory.

Of course, I can always pawn it off at work, but I don't think that's what a gifter would want me to do with it!

After all, every summer I am happy to help out friends, neighbors, and / or co-workers looking to pawn off mangoes from their over-productive trees.

Blend beans into a spread or dip, and pawn them off on cocktail party guests.

i brought it to a «meatloaf» party and pawned it off as meat.

Using the amnesty clause on disappointing center Brendan Haywood will cut another $ 8.3 million from their cap and may end up being enough to get Williams, but to be extra safe, they'll probably look to pawn off Marion to a team in the middle of the lottery.

They pawned us off on their Risk Management dept. Those assholes did not return several of my voice messages and in turn, pawned us off to the 3rd party company.

Apparently Alan Curbishley has decided that some of the current regime at West Ham have to go this summer, and he's hoping to pawn off overrated striker Dean Ashton and defender Anton Ferdinand to interested parties.

First you tried to pawn off thatbad ham as bacon.

He could not be pawned off on anyone because he was terrible

Arshavin, Villa, Nasri, a DM and a CB please, asking for a GK would prob make AW explode, better now pawn us off with berto the 40 year old, DM is a must as Flam F'd us.

That doesn't mean I would pawn them off on some mysterious (and probably nonexistent) «better family.»

It would be fairly easy in a community situation to «pawn off» our child in many ways.

Or a friend has a crib in the attic from 1998 they are dying to pawn off graciously give you.

Your friend's cousin has a crib mattress sitting in her attic that she'd love to pawn off... uh, we mean graciously give you.

Customers are more likely to buy if you seem trustworthy, and not like someone who's just trying to pawn off stuff that's going to break as soon as they get it home.

In her 2014 Manhattan federal suit, Washington lobbyist Mary Arnold accused D'Amato and his brother, Armand, who ran the litigation - consulting firm Precision Discovery, of trying to pawn her off as the head of a new entity, although she'd have «no management control.»

Yeah, I'll be the crazy blogger lady, for sure — but at least it will be a good place to pawn off all of the desserts I can't eat myself.

Nothing to pawn off, they can use it for whatever they want.

Their photographs are being used to create a fake persona that is then pawned off to look like a legitimate female who's looking for sex on SnapCougars.

This site admits to creating fake profiles and pawns them off as legitimate members of the of the site when they are not.

Secretly brokering a deal to pawn off Max to his ex's sister (Hope Davis), he agrees to care for the kid while she and her husband (James Rebhorn) vacation in Italy; but after Max catches wind of the scam, he insists on going halfsies with his old man, and the two of them set out on the road to rebuild Charlie's reputation — not to mention his fortune.

He makes himself the gang's target by appearing to still have the infant, whom he has pawned off on a prostitute (Monica Bellucci, not given anything to do except look beautiful), while he investigates the evil plotters.

He's got a 97 % success rate in court, mostly because he pawns off the tough cases.

Nobody remembers this now, but back then, the trades were counting on the reunion of Silverado collaborators Lawrence Kasdan and Kevin Costner to deliver the sleeper hit of the summer; although back then everybody involved in the production tried to pawn off the film's failure on the growing cult of Tombstone, the fact is that Wyatt Earp is, if not the most boring movie ever made, perhaps the second-most.

The rest of the film follows Carl desperately trying to prove his innocence as Pastor Dan has decided to pawn off this accident on him (though Dr. Blaylock isn't dead but merely in a coma).

The crew of semi-anonymous British TV veterans behind the Crackle series Snatch have stumbled into the kind of job that gets pawned off on patsies and chumps: turn the Guy Ritchie movie of the same title into a crime series with the approximate production value of a Guy Ritchie - influenced student film.

Trying to pawn off a broken game to a segment of gamers shows they only have contempt for us.

Unlike many people, Malone's dictionary didn't get pawned off at a yard sale or packed away in her attic.

He didn't blow me off when he found out my budget range and he didn't pawn me off on another staff member in search of a bigger spender.

This really means that anyone who wants to get something made using e Ink technology they don't have to get pawned off to someone else anymore.