Synonyms of pull the wool over one's eyes

pull the wool over one's eyes

phrase

as in trick

to cause to believe what is untrue

He tried to pull the wool over my eyes with some cockamamy story about losing his phone.

Synonyms & Similar Words

• trick
• deceive
• fool
• suck in
• kid
• string along
• pull one's leg
• lead one up the garden path
• tease
• take in
• have on
• lead one down the garden path
• snooker
• buffalo
• snow
• sucker
• juggle
• bluff
• hoax
• con
• gull
• mislead
• fake out
• gammon
• hoodwink
• sting
• put on
• dupe
• spoof
• humbug
• do a number on
• delude
• cheat
• burn
• bamboozle
• gaff
• misinform
• catch
• hornswoggle
• misguide
• have
• cozen
• beguile
• stick
• swindle
• defraud
• chisel
• fleece
• skin
• rook
• bleed
• euchre
• mulct
• gyp
• shortchange
• flimflam
• hustle
• squeeze
• diddle

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• show up
• expose
• reveal
• uncover
• unmask
• disclose
• debunk
• undeceive
• tell
• unveil
• divulge
• uncloak
• disabuse
• disillusion
• disenchant