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- deceiveThe cigarette companies deceived the public about the health risks of cigarettes.
- deceive yourselfYou'd be deceiving yourself if you believed that.
- trickShe felt they had tricked her into saying more than she intended.
- foolYou don't fool me with your innocent act.
- take inThey claimed to be destitute, but we weren't taken in.
- pull the wool over someone's eyesI'm not stupid. You can't pull the wool over my eyes like that.
con
noun
uk
/kɒn/ us
/kɑːn/con noun (TRICK)
con noun (DISADVANTAGE)
- a stick to beat someone with idiom
- an ace up your sleeve idiom
- attraction
- be well in there idiom
- be/stay/keep one jump ahead idiom
- head start
- hold all the cards idiom
- in
- in the right place at the right time idiom
- inside track
- lock
- lose
- profit
- scent blood idiom
- secret weapon
- silver lining
- stick
- the best of both worlds idiom
- tough
- trouble
con noun (EVENT )
[ C ] informal
short for convention: a large event where fans of (=people who are very enthusiastic about) a particular TV programme, film, computer game, etc. can meet each other and some of the people involved in making it:
- angle
- backyard
- bailiwick
- cause célèbre
- centrism
- convention
- current issue
- demesne
- front
- issue
- kingdom
- leitmotiv
- province
- score
- specialism
- subject
- talk
- talking point
- themed
- topically
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