Idiom
pull the wool over someone's eyes
Meaning
To deceive someone.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“You can't pull the wool over my eyes that easily.”
“The salesman tried to pull the wool over her eyes with hidden fees, but she read the contract carefully.”
“For years he had pulled the wool over everyone's eyes, until a single careless email exposed the entire scheme.”
Examples
simple
“You can't pull the wool over my eyes that easily.”
contextual
“The salesman tried to pull the wool over her eyes with hidden fees, but she read the contract carefully.”
complex
“For years he had pulled the wool over everyone's eyes, until a single careless email exposed the entire scheme.”
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