sell (sb) out
informal — phrasal verb with sell /sel/ verb (sold, sold)Definition
› to not do what you have promised someone you will do or what you should do because you will get more advantages for yourself if you do something else: French farmers feel they've been sold out by their government in the negotiations. They've sold out to the road transport lobby (= done what these people wanted).Disappointing yourself and others
(Definition of sell (sb) out from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- anticlimax noun
- be one in the eye for sb idiom
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- chagrin noun
- comedown noun
- disappointing adjective
- disappointment noun
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- fail verb (NOT HELP)
- let sb down phrasal verb
- let the side down idiom
- letdown noun
- non-event noun
- not be all it's cracked up to be idiom
- sick as a parrot idiom
- swizz noun
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