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the hard sell

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*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