pulling the wool over one's eyes
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as in deceiving
to cause to believe what is untrue
He tried to pull the wool over my eyes with some cockamamy story about losing his phone.
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“Pulling the wool over one's eyes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pulling%20the%20wool%20over%20one%27s%20eyes. Accessed 25 Nov. 2024.
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