The phrase "about to trick" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when indicating that someone is on the verge of deceiving or misleading someone else.
Example: "He was about to trick his friends into believing he had won the lottery."
Alternatives: "on the verge of deceiving" or "about to deceive".
"It was really about trying to trick the viewer — and myself — into reminiscing about something that's right in front of you and gaining an appreciation for the present day".
Unlike police in the United States, they are not permitted to lie to suspects about evidence to trick them into confessing.
"It was horrifying to learn that people were using government forms designed to teach borrowers about loans to trick people and deceive them," Ms. Schlicke said in an interview this week.
This particular DWP cock-up represents an omnishambles worthy of The Thick of It, but there is also, to borrow the words of Mark Serwotka, the general secretary of the Public and Commercial Services union (PCS), something "disgraceful and sinister" about trying to trick people into believing in the benevolent chastisement of the state.
Every segment is some form of puzzle, whether making choices about how to trick someone in a race, or finding just the right ingredient for the local baker.
A couple of weeks ago, while researching for a Future Week article about how to trick people into being obsessed with you in the future, I heard about a YouTube network called Machinima.
I'd say that Elvis Costello was a "look at me" songwriter who smartly used a punk-esque sound and some thinly veiled double entendres about dicksucking to trick people into listening to him before slowly ramming his head further and further up his own "I'm a genius" ass.
But standing outside in the near-balmy 40-degree air in the early afternoon, she said she had the feeling that the mayor was about to get tricked by Mother Nature.
Compulsive lying says so much more about a persons self-esteem than it does about their desire to "trick" people.
Often, the scruffiness is a way to preempt high expectations of what you are about to produce, to trick yourself into seeming unhopeful.
