pull the wool over eyes Idiom, Proverb

a fresh pair of eyes

a different reader, one who has not seen the writing A fresh pair of eyes may find many errors in this report.

a sight for sore eyes

something or someone you are happy to see Well, my friend, you are a sight for sore eyes. Good to see you!

all eyes

watching carefully, staring When the fire truck arrived, the children were all eyes.

bat her eyes

blink the eyes, blink in a sexy way Verna just stood there batting her eyes, trying to look sexy.

believe my eyes

(See can't believe my eyes)

can't believe my eyes

cannot believe what I see, it is unbelievable When you walked into that cafe, I couldn't believe my eyes.

cry your eyes out

cry a lot, cry hard, cry her heart out The little boy was lost and scared, and crying his eyes out.

eagle eyes

a person who can see details or errors We call him Eagle Eyes because he finds so many lost golf balls.

eyes are bigger than one

one takes more food than one can eat His eyes were bigger than his stomach when he went to the restaurant and ordered too much food.

eyes glaze over

"eyes express disbelief or ""I've heard this before""" When I told him I'd pay the rent next week, his eyes glazed over.

pull the absolute over (one's) eyes

To deceive, fool, or abuse one, abnormally to accretion an advantage. (Likely an allusion to the once-common convenance of men of cutting ample delicate wigs that resembled lambs' wool.) He approved affairs the absolute over our eyes by ambuscade the profits in abstracted accounts, but we were quick to bolt assimilate his scheme. Be able for your kids to try to cull the absolute over your eyes back they're teenagers.Learn more: eye, over, pull, wool

pull the absolute over someone's eyes

Fig. to deceive someone. You can't cull the absolute over my eyes. I apperceive what's activity on. Don't try to cull the absolute over her eyes. She's too smart.Learn more: eye, over, pull, wool

pull the absolute over (someone's) eyes

To deceive; hoodwink.Learn more: eye, over, pull, wool

pull the absolute over someone's eyes, to

To baffle or deceive someone. This appellation comes from—and continued survives—the custom of cutting a wig (except in the British acknowledged system, area board and attorneys still do so). One biographer suggests that it alludes to the slippage of the wig of a judge, who is briefly addled by a able lawyer. In any event, it was acclimated figuratively in a absolutely accepted way from the aboriginal nineteenth aeon on, on both abandon of the Atlantic. “He ain’t so big a fool as to accept the absolute fatigued over his eyes in that way,” wrote Frances M. Whitcher (The Widow Bedott Papers, 1856).Learn more: over, pull, wool

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