put something over on
Example Sentences
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As my colleague Queenie Wong reported, Trump seems to think that he and Nvidia’s Huang had put something over on the Chinese.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 14, 2025
“If you seem to respect him, he thinks he’s put something over on you — therefore you’re a fool.”
From Washington Post • May 29, 2019
But, he conceded, "those somewhat stuffy people who do not respond to abstract art will fear that the connoisseurs are trying to put something over on them, and they will resent it."
From Time Magazine Archive
The customer who is trying to put something over on you or who is trying to get something for nothing always seems to win only because he fights and demands to see someone higher up.
From Time Magazine Archive
At first I thought she was trying to put something over on me, but I guess she's just genuinely crazy.
From The Innocent Adventuress by Bradley, Mary Hastings
