palm on

phrasal verb·1 sense·particle on

Meanings

1

Pass off a chore to someone else

Burdenrare

Why “on”? Weight piles on top of you. What is on you is yours to carry.

Stop trying to palm this on me.
Stop trying to slyly hand this chore over to me.
He palmed the boring job on the intern.
He slyly handed the boring job over to the intern.

Don't confuse with

palm onpalm off

Palm on means pass off a chore to someone else. Palm off means persuade someone to accept something inferior, often by deception.

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