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Vocabobobo Posted 19 years ago
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"Selling a fix"

I was reading an article in TIME, and came across this phrase.

The sentence in which the phrase is used goes like this: "Bush's hardest challenge will be selling a fix for the 12 million illegal immigrants already living in the U.S."

The article talks about how difficult it is going to be for the President Bush to realize the immigration reform during the rest of his presidency.

Thanks in advance.
  

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"sell" in this context, means "to influence someone to accepting something". If Bush is trying to "sell a fix" to the American people, then he is trying to influence whomever (the American public, senate, House of Representatives) to accepting his "fix", or his reform plan on immigration.

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  • "sell" in this context, means "to influence someone to accepting something".
  • If Bush is trying to "sell a fix" to the American people, then he is trying to influence whomever (the American public, senate, House of Representatives) to accepting his "fix", or his reform plan on immigration.
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"sell" in this context, means "to influence someone to accepting something". If Bush is trying to "sell a fix" to the American people, then he is trying to influence whomever (the American public, senate, House of Representatives) to accepting his "fix", or his reform plan on immigration.
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And, conversely: I just don't buy his story = I don't believe him.
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to sell [here]: to convince someone that something will/would work
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