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Significats de pull the wool over someone's eyes en anglès

Conceal one's true motives from especially by elaborately feigning good intentions so as to gain an end.

Sinònims
Examples for "snow"
Examples for "snow"
1
Traveled four miles; came to the snow; continued about four miles further.
History of the Donner Party: A Tragedy of the Sierra
2
Note the entrance; a vertical hole in the snow in the foreground
The Home of the Blizzard / Being the Story of the Australasian A...
3
Our teams continue to work hard to clear snow from the airfield.
BBC
4
One year the snow was five foot high right here on the-Ned?
Harvest Home
5
Least it's too cold to snow, he comments; that's one good thing.
Those who save us
1
He has not risen early enough in the morning to hoodwink me.
Serge Panine — Volume 01
2
Try to hoodwink you into thinking they have no truss to sell.
Cluthe's Advice to the Ruptured
3
I need his evidence to hoodwink this old cask of grog, Abercromby.
A Fascinating Traitor: An Anglo-Indian Story
4
Also, I am a man whom he could easily hoodwink and outwit.
Dead Souls
5
Now you hoodwink Cicereau's security chief, who is apparently a blood addict.
Silver zombie: delilah street: paranormal investigator
1
The brilliant young English openside is never going to bamboozle Beauden Barrett twice.
The Irish Times
2
His fast feet bamboozle defences and he should waltz right into this squad.
Radio NZ
3
But many modern adventuresses have been able to bamboozle the mighty.
Mademoiselle of Monte Carlo
4
They bamboozle a green gosling out of his birthright on Monday; that's business.
The Complete Works of Brann, the Iconoclast — Volume 12
5
It is no use, Maternus, trying to bamboozle us with your everlasting serenity.
Andivius Hedulio: Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of ...
1
And we cringe, and we crawl, and are led by the nose.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, August 1, 1891
2
He had been led by the nose like a crude school-boy.
The Half-Hearted
3
Don't be led by the nose by a parcel of agitators!
The Obstacle Race
4
She thought all men were dumb animals to be led by the nose.
Bangkok 8
5
Now, boy, if I were you I would not be led by the nose.
Archibald Hughson: An Arctic Story
1
For the sake of effect, I shall not play false with philosophy.
The War Trail: The Hunt of the Wild Horse
2
He is deeply afraid that Richard might play false with Prince Edward.
The red queen
3
To release the eagle would be to play false to Shamash.
The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria
4
Those who dream they can play false with Him are mistaken.
The Master-Christian
5
She need not lie nor play false nor fool herself here.
The Desert of Wheat