pull wool over

Example Sentences

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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

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