"pull the wool over someone's eyes" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

Forms: pulls the wool over someone's eyes [present, singular, third-person], pulling the wool over someone's eyes [participle, present], pulled the wool over someone's eyes [participle, past], pulled the wool over someone's eyes [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*|head=pull the wool over someone's eyes}} pull the wool over someone's eyes (third-person singular simple present pulls the wool over someone's eyes, present participle pulling the wool over someone's eyes, simple past and past participle pulled the wool over someone's eyes)
  1. (informal, idiomatic) To deceive someone. Tags: idiomatic, informal Synonyms: pull wool over someone's eyes Translations (to deceive someone): rouler dans la farine (French), hinters Licht führen (German), megtéveszt (Hungarian), félrevezet (Hungarian), becsap (Hungarian), bepaliz (Hungarian), behúz a csőbe (Hungarian), átver (Hungarian), rászed (Hungarian), gettare fumo negli occhi (Italian), mydlić oczy (Polish), enganar (Portuguese), enrolar (Portuguese), embromar (Portuguese), втирать очки́ (vtiratʹ očkí) (Russian), dársela con queso (Spanish)

Inflected forms

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          "code": "it",
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          "sense": "to deceive someone",
          "word": "gettare fumo negli occhi"
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      "sense": "to deceive someone",
      "word": "behúz a csőbe"
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      "sense": "to deceive someone",
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      "sense": "to deceive someone",
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