Bill Of Goods Meaning

Example : 1884, Horatio Alger, Do and Dare, ch. 18:  "This morning," he said, "I foolishly gave Eben a hundred dollars, and sent him to Boston to pay for a bill of goods which I recently bought of a wholesale house on Milk Street."1956 Aug. 27, "Harry's Bitter Week," Time:  Truman bought quite a bill of goods from the old cronies who had flocked to Harriman.