"To pull the wool over someone's eyes" means to deceive or trick them, often by making them believe something that is not true. It refers to the act of misleading or fooling someone without their knowledge.

This idiom means to deceive or trick someone by hiding the truth from them. It implies that someone is being misled or fooled into believing something that is not true.

"To pull the wool over someone's eyes" means to deceive or trick someone by misleading them or keeping them in the dark about something. It implies hiding the truth or facts from them in order to manipulate them in some way.

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It's "pull the wool over your eyes." The wool refers to a powdered wig. To pull the wool down over a man's eyes is to temporarily blind him. It is an Americanism, dating to the 1830s.