pull the wool over someone's eyes
verb
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
conceal one's true motives from especially by elaborately feigning good intentions so as to gain an end
He bamboozled his professors into thinking that he knew the subject well
Types & categories
- deceive hypernym
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| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
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| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | deceive |