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pulled the wool over one's eyes
phrasepast tense of pull the wool over one's eyes
Synonyms & Antonyms of pulled the wool over one's eyes
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 for pulled the wool over one's eyes
- bamboozled,
- beguiled,
- bluffed,
- buffaloed,
- burned
- (or burnt),
- caught,
- conned,
- cozened,
- deceived,
- deluded,
- duped,
- faked out,
- fooled,
- gaffed,
- gammoned,
- gulled,
- had,
- had on
- [chiefly British],
- hoaxed,
- hoodwinked,
- hornswoggled,
- humbugged,
- juggled,
- misguided,
- misinformed,
- misled,
- snookered,
- snowed,
- spoofed,
- strung along,
- sucked in,
- suckered,
- took in,
- tricked
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