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palm 2, verb (oh) and Scheherazade (oh)


palm 2, verb (oh)



2 v [T]
to hide something in the palm of your hand, especially when you are performing a Magic trick or stealing something
palm off [palm sth ¡û¡ú off] phr v
to persuade someone to accept or buy something that is not of good quality or is not the thing that they really want
palm something ¡û¡ú off on/onto
::He tried to palm off his old books onto me.
palm something ¡û¡ú off as
::Dealers sometimes palm off fakes as genuine works of Art.
palm off with [palm sb off with sth] phr v
to give someone an explanation that is not true but that you hope they will accept

Scheherazade (oh)



, Sheherazade
the woman who tells the stories in The Arabian Nights. Scheherazade marries a man who always kills his wife on the night after the wedding. To prevent him from killing her too, she tells him part of an interesting story and then says she will tell him the rest of the story the next night. Because he wants to hear the end of the story, he does not kill her. She does this every night for one thousand and one nights, and after this, he allows her to live.