"palm it off" is correct and usable in written English.
It is an idiom that means to pass blame for something off onto someone else. For example: "I don't want to apologize to my boss for the mistake, so I'm going to try to palm it off onto someone else."
If an organisation is transmitting information, then say so and don't try and palm it off as consultation.
(Unless you just can't face it, or can't afford to stage it, in which case you can palm it off on a friend).
So severe, indeed, that analysts suspect Mr Colaninno might have tried to palm it off on the Italian government.The failure of the Tecnost scheme, in November, brought about by pressure from minority shareholders, has affected Mr Colaninno in two ways.
What's the toughest call that you've had to make? A. One of the glories of my job is that if it's really tough, I can palm it off on the executive editor.
D'Hooghe attempted to stave off allegations of corruption by declaring that he found out the painting was worthless and that he hated it so much that he tried to palm it off on his secretary, who also hated it.
Then they would simply take the poor-quality cashmere that had been rejected, remix it with more high-quality cashmere, and again try to palm it off on the same factory.
"We just got word they palmed it off on some guy".
Really, I'm just relieved to have palmed it off on somebody, as it was starting to scratch.
So they palmed it off on workers, most of whom had no investing skills to speak of, and insisted breezily that long-term, equity markets generally rose.
But Warren Beatty, taking the envelope, slowly announcing the lead up to the winner, checking again, and again, agonising over it a few more seconds… then palming it off to Dunaway to instead make the fuck-up on live TV? Icon.
The overwhelming feeling of the report is 'theft is bad', with supermarket losses supposedly doubling since the introduction of self-service and the advent of lowkey, easy-to-do, palm-it-off grocery theft.
