bill of goods

plural bills of goods

1. businessA list of items purchased or offered for sale.

   Near-synonym: bill of sale

   Synonyms: bill of sale

2. metonymicallyThe items themselves, as a collection or set.

   "This morning," he said, "I foolishly gave Eben a hundred dollars, and sent him to Boston to pay for a bill of goods which I recently bought of a wholesale house on Milk Street."

   1884, Horatio Alger, chapter 18, in Do and Dare

3. idiomaticA set of misleading or deceptive claims.

   Near-synonyms: misinformation, disinformation, bullshit; see also Thesaurus:bullshit

   1 more example

   Truman bought quite a bill of goods from the old cronies who had flocked to Harriman.

   1956 August 27, “Harry's Bitter Week”, in Time

   Synonyms: misinformation, disinformation, bullshit