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Meanings of pull the wool over someone's eyes in English

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

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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