pull the wool over someone's eyes

: the soft wavy or curly usually thick undercoat of various hairy mammals and especially the sheep made up of a matrix of keratin fibers and covered with minute scales

: a product of wool

: a dense felted pubescence especially on a plant : tomentum

: across a barrier or intervening (see intervene 4) space

: forward beyond an edge or brink and often down

: across the brim

used as a function word to indicate motion or situation in a position higher than or above another

used as a function word to indicate the possession of authority, power, or jurisdiction in regard to some thing or person

used as a function word to indicate superiority, advantage, or preference

: upper, higher

: outer, covering

: excessive

: to leap over

: so as to exceed or surpass

: excessive

: to an excessive degree

: some person : somebody

: a specialized light-sensitive sensory structure of animals that in nearly all vertebrates, most arthropods, and some mollusks is the image-forming organ of sight

: all the visible structures within and surrounding the orbit and including eyelids, eyelashes, and eyebrows

: the faculty of seeing with eyes

: to fix the eyes on : look at

: contemplate, consider

: to watch or study closely