LEAD BY THE NOSE

• (verb) conceal one's true motives from especially by elaborately feigning good intentions so as to gain an end

  "He bamboozled his professors into thinking that he knew the subject well"

  synonyms : bamboozle , hoodwink , play false , pull the wool over someone's eyes , snow

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