pull wool over
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You kind of say to your audience, “We know you know this isn’t real; we’re not trying to pull wool over your eyes.”
From Slate • Oct. 31, 2020
“Because he’s a businessman, nobody can pull wool over his eyes when it comes to negotiations,” said John Kotse, 68, a retired lab technician.
From Washington Post • Mar. 13, 2018
But of course Grandma was putting on the best show possible to pull wool over the reporter’s eyes.
From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck
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You're modest and well-mannered, and you've got too much sense to try again to pull wool over my eyes, even if you're wicked enough to want to, which I don't believe.
From Nobody by Jacobs, W. L.
No use; the captain knows the boom from the bobstay, and if he isn't a Knight of the Golden Fleece, you can't pull wool over his eyes.
From Dikes and Ditches Young America in Holland and Belguim by Optic, Oliver