pulling the wool over one's eyes
phrase
as in deceiving
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
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- deceiving
- tricking
- fooling
- sucking in
- stringing along
- taking in
- having on
- leading one up the garden path
- gammoning
- pulling one's leg
- faking out
- kidding
- leading one down the garden path
- doing a number on
- teasing
- misleading
- hornswoggling
- buffaloing
- juggling
- putting on
- duping
- stinging
- snowing
- bluffing
- humbugging
- hoodwinking
- gulling
- cheating
- spoofing
- burning
- misinforming
- deluding
- suckering
- beguiling
- conning
- misguiding
- catching
- having
- hoaxing
- gaffing
- cozening
- snookering
- bamboozling
- gypping
- sticking
- euchring
- bleeding
- swindling
- flimflamming
- defrauding
- mulcting
- shortchanging
- fleecing
- rooking
- hustling
- chiseling
- skinning
- diddling
- squeezing
- chiselling
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- showing up
- revealing
- exposing
- uncovering
- unmasking
- disclosing
- debunking
- undeceiving
- telling
- unveiling
- divulging
- disillusioning
- uncloaking
- disabusing
- disenchanting