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.
See also: 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.
See also: hard, sell

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
AygÜN-Turkish, Azerbaijani
Concettinakon-chet-TEE-nahItalian
CloÉklo-E (French)Portuguese, French
Rawiya-Arabic
Hinrik-Icelandic
Nuada-Irish Mythology