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"text": "This isn't worth anything like what you paid them. I think they pulled a fast one on you.",
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"ref": "1992 August 7, Andrew Rosenthal, “The 1992 Campaign: Bush Says Rival Would ‘Pull a Fast One’ Over Taxes”, in New York Times, retrieved 2017-11-03",
"text": "President Bush today made his most aggressive assault yet on Gov. Bill Clinton, asserting that the Democratic nominee would \"pull a fast one on the American people\" and raise taxes by hundreds of billions of dollars.",
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"ref": "1998 March 16, Daniel Kadlec, “Is That You, Al Dunlap?”, in Time, retrieved 2017-11-03",
"text": "The man known as Chainsaw Al pulled a fast one last week, buying three companies when everyone assumed he would be selling his own.",
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"ref": "2013 April 2, Ricky Tomlinson, “10 lies we're told about welfare”, in The Guardian, retrieved 2017-11-03",
"text": "7. Claimants are pulling a fast one. No. Less than 1% of the welfare budget is lost to fraud.",
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"ref": "2021 January 11, Mimi Swartz, “Never Forget What Ted Cruz Did”, in The New York Times, →ISSN",
"text": "But then came Jan. 6, when I watched my Ivy League-educated senator, Ted Cruz, try to pull yet another fast one on the American people as he fought — not long before the certification process was disrupted by a mob of Trump supporters storming the Capitol and forcing their way into the Senate chamber — to challenge the election results.",
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"(idiomatic, often followed by on) To carry out a trick or deception; to behave contrary to expectations."
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"sense": "to deceive or trick",
"word": "jemanden über den Löffel barbieren"
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"sense": "to deceive or trick",
"word": "jemanden übers Ohr hauen"
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