I was hoodwinked
I was tricked
TRANSLATION
hoodwink = jemanden hereinlegen bzw. hintergehen --- GOOGLE INDEX hoodwink: approximately 300,000 Google hits
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
Food labels HOODWINK shoppers
(BBC - News Headline)
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Lawmakers on a Senate subcommittee grilled Chief Executive Officer Lloyd Blankfein and other Goldman executives about claims the bank HOODWINKED clients who bought mortgage-related derivatives designed to lose money.
(BusinessWeek magazine)
(BBC - News Headline)
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Lawmakers on a Senate subcommittee grilled Chief Executive Officer Lloyd Blankfein and other Goldman executives about claims the bank HOODWINKED clients who bought mortgage-related derivatives designed to lose money.
(BusinessWeek magazine)
Did you
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hoodwink
verb
- to deceive or trick someone
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In the 16th century, "wink" meant to firmly close the eyes, not briefly close them and open them again, which is the modern definition of the word. To "hoodwink" someone was to literally blindfold them with a hood, often the sort used by executioners.
Hoodwinking was also a tactic of thieves, who would throw a hood over their victims' heads before robbing them. This literal sense of "hoodwinking" was joined in the 17th century by today's figurative sense of hoodwink, which is to blind someone by trickery or deceit in order to take advantage of them.
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SYNONYMS
bamboozle, con, fool, pull the wool over one's eyes, take for a ride, take to the cleaners, trick
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"Be careful not to be hoodwinked when shopping online."
verb
- to deceive or trick someone
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In the 16th century, "wink" meant to firmly close the eyes, not briefly close them and open them again, which is the modern definition of the word. To "hoodwink" someone was to literally blindfold them with a hood, often the sort used by executioners.
Hoodwinking was also a tactic of thieves, who would throw a hood over their victims' heads before robbing them. This literal sense of "hoodwinking" was joined in the 17th century by today's figurative sense of hoodwink, which is to blind someone by trickery or deceit in order to take advantage of them.
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SYNONYMS
bamboozle, con, fool, pull the wool over one's eyes, take for a ride, take to the cleaners, trick
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"Be careful not to be hoodwinked when shopping online."
