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pull the wool over someone's eyes
pull the wool over someone's eyesTo deceive or fool someone; from the woolen wigs formerly worn by judges. Someone who had succeeded in fooling a judge likened this to physically pulling his wig down until he could not see properly.Thesaurus| Verb | 1. | pull the wool over someone's eyes - conceal one's true motives from especially by elaborately feigning good intentions so as to gain an end; "He bamboozled his professors into thinking that he knew the subject well"bamboozle, lead by the nose, play false, snow, hoodwinkdeceive, lead astray, betray - cause someone to believe an untruth; "The insurance company deceived me when they told me they were covering my house" |
Translationswool (wul) noun, adjective (of) the soft hair of sheep and some other animals, often made into yarn etc for knitting or into fabric for making clothes etc. I wear wool in winter; knitting-wool; a wool blanket. 羊毛 羊毛ˈwoollen adjective made of wool. a woollen hat. 羊毛製的 羊毛制的ˈwoollens noun plural clothes (especially jumpers etc) made of wool. Woollens should be washed by hand. 羊毛編織服飾(尤指毛衣等) 毛织品ˈwoolly adjective1. made of, or like, wool. a woolly jumper/rug. 羊毛製(般)的 羊毛状的2. (also ˌwoolly-ˈheaded) (of a person) vague or hazy. She's too woolly(-headed) to be in charge of a department. 腦筋糊塗的 糊涂的 noun – plural ˈwoollies – a knitted garment. 針織衣 毛线衣ˈwoolliness noun 羊毛製(般)，腦筋糊塗 毛线织物pull the wool over someone's eyes to deceive someone. 期騙某人 蒙蔽某人
pull the wool over someone's eyes
pull the wool over (one's) eyesTo deceive, fool, or misdirect one, especially to gain an advantage. (Likely an allusion to the once-common practice of men of wearing large powdered wigs that resembled lambs' wool.) He tried pulling the wool over our eyes by hiding the profits in separate accounts, but we were quick to catch onto his scheme. Be prepared for your kids to try to pull the wool over your eyes when they're teenagers.See also: eye, over, pull, woolpull the wool over someone's eyesDeceive or hoodwink someone, as in His partner had pulled the wool over his eyes for years by keeping the best accounts for himself . This term alludes to the former custom of wearing a wig, which when slipping down can blind someone temporarily. [c. 1800] See also: eye, over, pull, woolpull the wool over someone's eyes If someone pulls the wool over your eyes, they try to deceive you, sometimes in order to get an advantage over you. I just thought he was trying to pull the wool over my eyes to get a better price. Parents who were mistreating their small children would find it difficult to pull the wool over her eyes. Note: In the past, wigs for men were sometimes called `wool' because they looked like a sheep's fleece. It was easy to pull wigs over people's eyes, either as a joke or in order to rob them. See also: eye, over, pull, woolpull the wool over someone's eyes deceive someone, especially by telling untruths. 1997 Spectator On no occasion do I remember Ridsdale trying to pull the wool over my eyes but rather trying always to remove the wool that journalists…pull over their own eyes. See also: eye, over, pull, woolpull the wool over someone's eyes, toTo hoodwink or deceive someone. This term comes from—and long survives—the custom of wearing a wig (except in the British legal system, where judges and barristers still do so). One writer suggests that it alludes to the slippage of the wig of a judge, who is temporarily blinded by a clever lawyer. In any event, it was used figuratively in a quite general way from the early nineteenth century on, on both sides of the Atlantic. “He ain’t so big a fool as to have the wool drawn over his eyes in that way,” wrote Frances M. Whitcher (The Widow Bedott Papers, 1856).See also: over, pull, woolEncyclopediaSeewoolpull the wool over someone's eyes
Synonyms for pull the wool over someone's eyesverb conceal one's true motives from especially by elaborately feigning good intentions so as to gain an endSynonyms- bamboozle
- lead by the nose
- play false
- snow
- hoodwink
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