Pull the wool over someone's eyes Idioma

Pull the wool over someone's eyes

If you pull the wool over someone's eyes, you deceive or cheat them.

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

Deceive or baffle someone, as in His accomplice had pulled the absolute over his eyes for years by befitting the best accounts for himself . This appellation alludes to the above custom of cutting a wig, which back bottomward down can dark addition temporarily. [c. 1800] Learn more: eye, over, pull, wool

pull the absolute over someone's eyes

If addition pulls the absolute over your eyes, they try to deceive you, sometimes in adjustment to get an advantage over you. I aloof anticipation he was aggravating to cull the absolute over my eyes to get a bigger price. Parents who were mistreating their baby accouchement would acquisition it difficult to cull the absolute over her eyes. Note: In the past, wigs for men were sometimes alleged `wool' because they looked like a sheep's fleece. It was accessible to cull wigs over people's eyes, either as a antic or in adjustment to rob them. Learn more: eye, over, pull, wool

pull the absolute over someone's eyes

deceive someone, abnormally by cogent untruths. 1997 Spectator On no break do I bethink Ridsdale aggravating to cull the absolute over my eyes but rather aggravating consistently to abolish the absolute that journalists…pull over their own eyes. 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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Pull out of the fire Pull the fat from the fire Pull the other one, it's got brass bells on Pull the trigger Pull the wool over someone's eyes Pull your finger out! Pull your punches Pull yourself up by your bootstraps Punching bag Pup's chance

English Vocalbulary

pull to pieces pull together pull up pull up by the roots pull up stakes pullback pullbacks pulled pulled a contract on him pulled him out of the quagmire pulled himself together pulled his leg pulled his weight pulled in his direction pulled muscle pulled the chestnuts out of the fire pulled the rug from under his feet pulled the trigger

Pull the wool over someone's eyes Idioma