pulled the wool over one's eyes
phrase
as in deceived
to cause to believe what is untrue He tried to pull the wool over my eyes with some cockamamy story about losing his phone. Synonyms & Similar Words
Relevance
- deceived
- tricked
- fooled
- pulled one's leg
- sucked in
- strung along
- led one up the garden path
- had on
- gammoned
- led one down the garden path
- teased
- hoodwinked
- took in
- kidded
- snowed
- snookered
- misled
- buffaloed
- juggled
- put on
- faked out
- duped
- deluded
- gulled
- misguided
- stung
- did a number on
- conned
- bluffed
- misinformed
- spoofed
- suckered
- cheated
- hoaxed
- bamboozled
- gaffed
- humbugged
- hornswoggled
- caught
- burned
- had
- beguiled
- burnt
- cozened
- stuck
- swindled
- euchred
- defrauded
- gypped
- fleeced
- chiseled
- shortchanged
- mulcted
- skinned
- rooked
- hustled
- diddled
- bled
- squeezed
- flimflammed
- chiselled
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- exposed
- revealed
- uncovered
- unmasked
- disclosed
- undeceived
- debunked
- unveiled
- told
- showed up
- divulged
- disenchanted
- uncloaked
- disillusioned
- disabused