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pull the wool over someone's eyes (тж. см. draw the wool over someone's eyes Yuri Ginsburg); smoke and mirrors (The cost of adding multiple Level II chargers could be prohibitive, if the service to the building(s) is already close to being maxed out. I've owned two EV, and likely not again anytime soon. Forget about it. It's all smoke and mirrors. (vancouversun.com) ART Vancouver); give someone a song and dance (about something; to offer a complicated excuse for something that is difficult to believe: Every time she is late she gives me a song and dance about oversleeping. 4uzhoj); bam; give a long song and dance (Anglophile); phoney up (Anglophile); give razzmatazz (Anglophile); tell tall tales; jive (Anglophile); mislead (кому-либо – someone last_tochka); come it over (someone Tarija); string a line (krolikova); pour banana oil in one's ear (He poured banana oil in her ear, telling her flattering sweet lies to lure her heart. Kenny Gray); play somebody along (КГА); spin someone a line (boggler); feed someone a line (AnnaOchoa); spiel (Taras); cram; fool; stuff; hand someone a line (Rust71); talk out of the side of one's neck (VLZ_58); fill someone's head with nonsense (literally "hanging a noodle on their ears" – one of Russian's most colorful ways to dupe people: Его команда обрабатывает избирателей, лапшу на уши вешает по поводу роста пенсий – His team is pushing the buttons of the voters and filling their heads with nonsense about raising pensions  themoscowtimes.com); hoodwink (someone – кому-либо: an attempt to hoodwink the public Val_Ships); yank someone's chain; give someone apple-sauce (Anglophile); put one over on (someone Artjaazz); feed beans (Anglophile); fool (someone); pull over on (Только не надо мне вешать лапшу на уши. я знаю, что ты не можешь отдать мне сейчас долг. Stop trying to put one over on me. I know you can't pay me back now.; обманывать to deceive someone verbally; someone); draw the wool over someone's eyes (Баян) |
