n.
1.a kind of pain
2.a mental pain or distress
3.a painful wound caused by the thrust of an insect's stinger into skin
4.a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property sting v.
1.cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort
2.deliver a sting to
3.saddle with something disagreeable or disadvantageous
4.cause a stinging pain
5.cause an emotional pain, as if by stinging
Idiom of the Day
sell (someone) a bill of goods
to deceive someone, to get someone to believe something that is not true
I believe that the salesman sold me a bill of goods and the product does not have much value.