To pull the wool over someone's eyes

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🗓️ 19 March 2019

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Here's a phrase about preventing someone from discovering something.

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0:00.0	This is a download from BBC Learning English.
0:03.0	To find out more, visit our website.
0:06.0	The English we speak.
0:09.0	From BBC Learning English.
0:14.0	Hello and welcome to the English we speak with me Faye
0:18.0	And hello I'm Neil and I have to say Faye
0:20.8	That's a very cool but warm woolly hat you're wearing.
0:24.0	Oh thanks Neil it's unusual to get a compliment from you.
0:28.4	You're welcome but why are you wearing it in the studio?
0:31.5	Well it's so cold outside.
0:34.0	I had to wear something to keep my head warm.
0:37.0	I suppose I should take it off now?
0:40.0	Actually, no.
0:41.0	Can you pull it down a bit more so it covers your eyes?
0:44.0	Well, if you say so.
0:47.0	There, how do I look?
0:49.0	Beautiful. And it demonstrates the English phrase perfectly, to pull the wool over your eyes.
0:55.0	Another strange English phrase.
0:58.0	Neil, does it mean not being able to see or maybe to have a very warm head.
1:04.0	No, to pull the wool over somebody's eyes
1:06.3	means to trick or deceive someone,
1:08.8	so it stops them discovering something.
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