Pull the wool over your eyes

Taken for Macro Mondays' theme ~ Fool You. When pulling pranks on people, it is the customary saying that you pulled the wool over their eyes.

 

The origin of this saying seems to come from the style of the 16th and 17th centuries where both men and women wore woolen wigs. This way, the eyes of somebody could easily be hidden if the wig was slid over them and a person could say to another "I pulled the wool over your eyes," when tricking them.

 

Chapter 2013, Page 91

 

 

 

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