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pulling the wool over someone's eyes

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.65 in modern English

Syllables
pulling the -wool over -some-one's eyes
IPA
47
Scrabble Score
30
Letters
4
Syllables
16
Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

present participle and gerund of pull the wool over someone's eyes

Questions

What does pulling the wool over someone's eyes mean?
present participle and gerund of pull the wool over someone's eyes

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