Cynics say it is naive to expect anything dramatic before the 2012 election ; yet it is also naive to expect investors to be fobbed off with lame efforts like the debt-ceiling deal .
One letter from harold macmillan , the prime minister of the day , argued that gagarin should be fobbed off with a group of no-name mps .
当时的英国首相哈罗德麦克米伦在一封信中写到应该让那些无名的议员去接见他。
It fobbed off peacekeeping on to nato and created an international security assistance force ( isaf ) with a remit that at first did not go beyond kabul , the capital .