the hard sell

*the hard sell

high-pressure selling techniques. (*Typically: get ~ give someone ~.) They gave me the hard sell, but I still wouldn't buy the car. The clerk gave the customer the hard sell.

the hard sell

a method of trying very hard to persuade someone to buy something even if they do not want to All I did was ask for a price list and a carpet salesman started giving me the hard sell.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Kambiz	-	Persian
Rusty	RUS-tee	English
Ottmar	-	German
Geretrudis	-	Ancient Germanic (Latinized)
Borghildur	-	Icelandic
Gerarda	je-RAHR-dah (Italian)	Italian, Dutch