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

Now to see whether the edifice I had builded had but a foundation of sand, or whether Wildred had merely been clever enough to pull wool over the eyes of the police.

From The House by the Lock by Williamson, A. M. (Alice Muriel)

It would not do to let Mrs. Herne, clever as she was, pull wool over his eyes.

From The Secret Passage by Hume, Fergus