- (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.
New idioms dictionary. 2014.
(the) hard sell
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hard sell — using much pressure to sell, trying hard to convince the customer to buy, soft sell He was giving us the hard sell. He almost forced us to sign the contract … English idioms
hard sell — n. a high pressure attempt to sell something. □ I didn’t want to listen to any hard sell, so I bought it from a mail order place. □ I’m afraid I’m very susceptible to the hard sell … Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions
hard sell — /hɑ:d sel/ noun ♦ to give a product the hard sell to make great efforts to persuade people to buy a product ♦ he tried to give me the hard sell he put a lot of effort into trying to make me buy … Marketing dictionary in english
