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The phrase "pulling the wool" is a correct and usable part of a sentence in written English.
It is often used to describe someone deceiving or tricking someone else. Example: The politician was known for his tactics of pulling the wool over his constituents' eyes in order to gain their votes.
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He said, "It hurt me that they were pulling the wool over my eyes".
The SEC complaint charges BofA with pulling the wool over investors' eyes.
"If the politicians in these debates think they're pulling the wool over the American people's eyes, they're crazy".
What the referees and assistants are learning however is that he keeps pulling the wool over their eyes - his comeuppance can surely not be too far away.
In our article on Meinl Bank last week ("Pulling the wool") we said that Julius Meinl V was the head of the Meinl family.
"It was seen as another example of G.M. pulling the wool over everybody's eyes," he said, "with a car that we'd never put into production".
As Coulter explains: "There is often a cynicism about the capacity of men to change – are they just pulling the wool over everybody's eyes?
Only last week, Buckingham Palace was busy pulling the wool over our eyes, claiming as they often do that the institution costs us a "value-for-money" £37m.
Yet another crisis has been manufactured by this president and his spin doctors, once again pulling the wool over the eyes of the country.
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"You can't pull the wool over their eyes".
You can't pull the wool over God's eyes".
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

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