[with obj.](foist someone/thing on)impose an unwelcome or unnecessary person or thing on 把…强加于,把…硬塞给 beers are foisted on a public unaware of their inferior ingredients. 把配料低劣的啤酒强卖给不知情的公众。 ■(foist someone/thing into)introduce someone or something surreptitiously or unwarrantably into 暗中(或擅自)把…加进 he attempted to foist a new minister into the conference. 他想擅自把一个新牧师塞进会议。
语源
mid 16th cent. (in the sense 'palm a false die, so as to produce it at the right moment'): from Dutch dialect vuisten 'take in the hand', from vuist (see fist)