pull wool over
Example Sentences
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You kind of say to your audience, “We know you know this isn’t real; we’re not trying to pull wool over your eyes.”
From Slate ● Oct. 31, 2020
“Because he’s a businessman, nobody can pull wool over his eyes when it comes to negotiations,” said John Kotse, 68, a retired lab technician.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 13, 2018
But of course Grandma was putting on the best show possible to pull wool over the reporter’s eyes.
From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck
It would not do to let Mrs. Herne, clever as she was, pull wool over his eyes.
From The Secret Passage by Hume, Fergus
For I will be honest with you, and not, like most story-tellers, try to pull wool over your eyes all the way through.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864 by Various
