Hello everybody. Today we're talking about expressions with the word bill. Are you familiar with that word? It says on Dictionary.com that "a bill is a statement of money owed for goods or services supplied", like an electricity bill, gas, fuel, hospital, phone bills. We're talking about that little piece of paper you find under your door you find every end of the month. If you feel like your phone bill has been huge/big/large/high lately, you can decide to reduce or cut it. What you can't do though is to leave the bill unpaid.
But let's go back to the expressions with the word bill I was talking about. If someone is selling you a bill of goods, what do you think he is doing to you? Let's suppose you came home late one night, and your wife's very upset by the door waiting up for you. The truth is, you were at a bar with some friends and lost track of time, but you want to get your wife to believe something else, something that isn't true. But your wife's reluctant to believe in you. That's when you say: I'm not selling you a bill of goods. What I say is true. "To sell someone a bill of goods" means to deceive someone.
Now imagine one day you kind of felt really bad and needed to be examined. The problem is that you need to get out of that hospital as soon as possible because you have something else on, but they won't let you out before the doctors give you a clean bill of health. But what, what do the doctors need to give you? A clean bill of health. That means they have to examine you and state that you are healthy, in good condition, they need to give you a clean bill of health.
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