pull the wool over someone's eyes

English

Verb

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.

Alternative forms

• pull wool over someone's eyes

Translations

to deceive someone

• French: rouler dans la farine (fr)
• German: hinters Licht führen (de)
• Hungarian: megtéveszt (hu), félrevezet (hu), becsap (hu), bepaliz (hu), behúz a csőbe, átver (hu), rászed (hu)
• Italian: gettare fumo negli occhi
• Polish: mydlić oczy (pl)
• Portuguese: enganar (pt), enrolar (pt), embromar (pt)
• Russian: ве́шать лапшу на у́ши (ru) (véšatʹ lapšu na úši, literally “to hang noodles on the ears”), втирать очки́ (ru) (vtiratʹ očkí), пудрить мозги́ (ru) (pudritʹ mozgí, literally “to powder the brains”)
• Spanish: dársela con queso (es)