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The phrase comes from Aesop and one of his fables. The fable talks about a wolf who stumbles upon a fleece and does what you would expect: use it to try to sneak up on sheep. In the fable, though, the moral of the story comes about when the wolf, mistaken for a sheep, comes to a bad end--done in by his own deceit.

Our use of the term doesn't look upon the moral but upon the action: disguising oneself to sneak up on someone undetected.

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