in pawn イディオム
pawn
pawn pawn off palm off (see phrase under
palm)
pawn off
pawn off Dispose of by deception, as in
They tried to pawn off a rebuilt computer as new. This expression may have originated as a corruption of
palm off, although it was also put as
pawn upon in the 1700s, when it originated.
in pawn
Having been pawned; in hock. He begin himself in such acute straits that alike his admired abridged watch, accustomed to him by his backward grandfather, was now in pawn.Learn more: pawn