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Deception so cozy the victim thanks you for the blanket.
means To deceive someone by distracting or misleading them so they fail to see the truth — to trick them while keeping them pleasantly unaware.
from From the idiom 'to pull the wool over someone's eyes,' recorded in English by the early 19th century. The 'wool' likely alludes to wigs made of wool-like hair, fashionable among gentlemen of earlier centuries — yanking one down over the eyes would literally blind the wearer for a moment, a handy metaphor for being deceived or blindsided. The phrase stuck long after the wigs went out of style.
- origin
- 18th century wigs were literally called wool
- the trick
- pulling a wig down to blind judges, literally
- modern use
- any con dressed up as a favor
- tell
- if it feels warm, check your wallet