| 单词 | pull the wool over someone's eyes |
| 释义 | pull the wool over someone's eyes in British Englishto deceive or delude someone pull the wool over someone's eyes in American English US Informal to deceive or trick someone pull the wool over someone's eyesto try to deceive someone in order to get an advantage over them `I just told them I was ten years younger than I really was,' says Liliana, speakingyesterday about how she pulled the wool over the medical profession's eyes. Synonyms of 'pull the wool over someone's eyes'deceive, kid, trick, fool More Synonyms of pull the wool over someone's eyes (idiom) a phony psychic who pulled the wool over everyone's eyes Synonyms deceive He has deceived and disillusioned us all. kid (informal) Are you sure you're not kidding me? I'm just kidding. trick He'll be upset when he finds out how you tricked him. fool Art dealers fool a lot of people. take in (informal) con (slang) He claimed that the businessman had conned him out of his life savings. dupe Some of the offenders duped the psychologists. delude We delude ourselves that we are in control. bamboozle (informal) He was bamboozled by conmen. hoodwink Many people are hoodwinked by the so-called beauty industry. put one over on (slang) pull a fast one on someone (informal) Someone had pulled a fast one on her over a procedural matter. lead someone up the garden path (informal) Additional synonymsin the sense of bamboozle Definition to cheat He was bamboozled by conmen. Synonyms cheat, do (informal), kid (informal), skin (slang), trick, fool, take in (informal), con (informal), stiff, sting (informal), mislead, rip off (slang), thwart, deceive, fleece, hoax, defraud, dupe, beguile, gull (archaic), delude, swindle, stitch up (slang), victimize, hoodwink, double-cross (informal), diddle (informal), take for a ride (informal), do the dirty on (British, informal), bilk, pull a fast one on (informal), cozenin the sense of con Definition to swindle or defraud He claimed that the businessman had conned him out of his life savings. Synonyms swindle, trick, cheat, rip off (slang), sting (informal), kid (informal), skin (slang), stiff (slang), mislead, deceive, hoax, defraud, dupe, gull (archaic), rook (slang), humbug, bamboozle (informal), hoodwink, double-cross (informal), diddle (informal), take for a ride (informal), inveigle, do the dirty on (British, informal), bilk, sell a pup, pull a fast one on (informal), cozen, scam (slang) in the sense of delude Definition to make someone believe something that is not true We delude ourselves that we are in control. Synonyms deceive, kid (informal), fool, trick, take in (informal), cheat, con (informal), mislead, impose on, hoax, dupe, beguile, gull (archaic), bamboozle (informal), hoodwink, take for a ride (informal), pull the wool over someone's eyes, lead up the garden path (informal), cozen, misguide, scam (slang) Nearby words of |
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