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Has anyone ever pulled the wool over your eyes? Or perhaps you've been taken for a ride?
Send me a sentence or two using these idioms and I'll publish my favourites on this page.
Send me a sentence or two using these idioms and I'll publish my favourites on this page.
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Well, for my sixteenth birthday, my family prepared a party for me. In order to prevent me from finding out, my ex-brother-in-law took me to the cinema on his motorbike. He literally took me for a ride. By the time we got back home, everything was ready, but I hadn't realised yet. They really managed to pull the wool over my eyes. I used to be quite naive. My mother knew me too well and knew I'd fall for it. She wasn't born yesterday.
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My ex-boyfriend was a compulsive flirt. He was neither good-looking nor rich. He liked flirting other girls. He used to take me for a ride. But I wasn't born yesterday, so I just dumped him for I could find another much better guy ;)
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Jane wanted to pull the wool over my eyes when she broken my favorite vase purposely, but I quickly found the truth cause I wasn't born yesterday.
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A friend of mine told me that 7 dwarfs have kidnapped her and showed her how is the Alice's World. I said to her I wasn't born yesterday.
If she had told me that a rabbit has kidnapped her and showed her the Alice's World, she'd still make me believe something which was not true.
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Once, when I was child, Ourparents invited some gests for dinner, I think was someone has birthday, but our gest arrived late,, they said me: oh, no, we were too late, the candy shore is closed , sorry girl,, but we were out of luck - but I rather felt, I was out of luck They were pulling the wool over my eyes.. but this is not succed,, I was very sad.. but I already do not like candy.. Happy New Year
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When I was a child, my parents was saying that Santa Claus live.I got a lot of presents from "him".My father was in a Chistmas time as Santa Claus. It was pulling the wool over my eyes. My brother told me that I got presents from their and family.Taking me for a ride. I told him that I known because Santa Claus had got shoes the same as my Father.I wasn't born yesterday.
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My freinds were planning to go for a journey,when i joined them, they pulled the wool over my eyes,they told me they were revising, but i wasn't born yesterday,in a paper on the desk , was written in black and white what they tried to hide.
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When asking my nephew about his homework, he's trying to pull the wool over my eyes. This makes me be upset. Once time I needed him to help me, he apologized and pretended he was ill. I thought he was taking me a ride. Then I said '' I wasn't born yesterday''.
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My little daughter tries pulling the wool over my eyes when I have to go to work and she is on holiday. She always say the same: "Somebody from your office phoned to tell you that the office is closed"
I tell her that she is taking me for a ride but I wasn't born yesterday
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Me and my brother have always tried to pull the wool over our mother's, eyes. but she wasn't born yesterday, and we ve never been able to take her for a ride!!!
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Hi teacher
I am happy to see your special edition for New Year
Don’t worry I will not believe them that New Years Eve was in October I am not born yesterday :)
Happy new year to the BBC Learning English team
Take care
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When I was a little girl, adults often take me for a ride by telling funny stories about everything. And they did pull the wool over my eyes about bad things they have done. Sometimes, they even don't recognize I've grown up that they kept cracking those jokes, I had to tell them that I was not born yesterday! :D
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One day, I have been taken for a ride luckyly by my brother. When I was arrived, he pulled the wool over my eyes. It is winter vacation .
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My best friend has taken me for a ride to make me happy.
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My boss is trying to pull the wool over my eyes telling the staff we'll not suffer wafe [edited by Moderator: I think you mean wage]-freezes or cutting-down in our salary. He thinks that he is taking me for a ride. But I wasn't born yesterday
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I watch a lot commercials in TV where some companies offer different products that guarantee a drastical changes in life, like lost weight in a few days, recover hair and other "magic" results, I think they pull the wool over the eyes of a lot consumers
In my present job, they offer me, before to firm a contract, a different conditions to work, but when I entry I noticed that some of them weren´t like the said,and in this moment I´m sure that they take me for a ride.
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(My sister and me are competting each other for losing weight now xD )
Yesterday. while I was excersing before the breakfast . My sister suddenly shouted at me that excercing on morning isn't helpful to lose weight.But I wasn't born yesterday so I figured out that she was pulling the wool over my eye. so I kept excercing ignoring her decit !
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For my boy friend's 27 year old birthday party, I was thinking to give him a surprise so I tried to convince my best friend to ask him out then I could prepare a birthday party at home to surprising him, but he was so smart that he wasn't born yesterday, he was still pretending that he wasn't know but tried to find some information for it.
My best friend Sarah, also not a smart preventer, she made my boy friend thought she was taking him for a ride.
I also was not a good surprising keeper, my boy friend knew that I tried to pull the wool over his eyes.
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When I realized my son six years old had got a haircut himself he tried to pull the wool over my eyes by telling me his hear had fallen off. He couldn´t take me for a ride because I wasn't born yesterday.
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Hi Teacher,
Your performance was wonderful! :) Really, you played your role professinally. I mean you can reflect your emotions very easily with your mimics and acts. I think you're the best candidate for this year's Oscar Nomination!
What? I'm taking you for a ride!? No! Really I am serious!
:) Take care... Happy new year!
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In my first date's day my boy friend sad he can't meet with me at night cause he should study for a test to the his college. However he was pullying the wool over in my eyes, cause indeed he was preparying dinner candlelight. This day that he taking me for a ride was the best day in my life. So i guess there are good lies...
Happy new year to everyone!!!!
I hope in this year i indeed learn english!!!! This is one of my new year's resolution...
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My husband told me that he has won the lottery he bought the other day. But I already knew that it was not the case. So I could stop him buying all of gadgets he wanted to have. Finally he admitted he lied to me and at the last resort he tried to take me for a ride to get what he wants. But I wasn't born yesterday, of course. At the end he cancelled his plan and we could save our money!
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The students in my class are not allowed to use their mobile phones during the class time. Boys often ask permission to go to toilet but I know that they are trying to pull the wool over my eyes, so I ask them to keep their mobiles on my table. Now that they are not able to carry the phone with them they don't want to go to the toilet! They thought that they could take me for a ride but I wasn't born yesterday!
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When I was a child I often asked my mother how children have been born. She was pullying the wool over in my eyes because she was asking that they have grown up from the heads of cabbage :)
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When I was a little girl, there is a friend who had boy's face and long hair both. I thought that male must has short hair at that time, so did other friends. Everyone except for the friends talked about if the guy is male or female, and had other opinions. well, I thought the friend was male so dated(?) him. He never told what his sex is and made us believe he had both sex. I and other friends had been taken for a ride nicely! erm, I think he is male now. I hope so.
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My husband tried to pull wool over my eyes regarding his betray a year ago. He was taking me for a ride. But I was not born yesterday. I discovered it and left him. But he came to me weeks later since I left him and even begged me back to him. Hence, I decided give him one more chance to prove he really loves me and want to fix our marriage. Luckily, our relationship has been going well up since then and I can feel he loves me much more than before.
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Salman Estyak,Bangladesh
Yesterday, A friend of mine told me not to go to my Reading room.. He didn't tell me why so though ..The reason was he didn't want me to see my room messed up..And for that he was tryingto pull the wool over my eyes.
The day before yesterday,the same friend told me that he was elected as the captain of his school,he was trying to take me for a ride...and I retorted to his deciet that "I was not born yesterday". What an idiomatic week it was!
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I went to the gym this morning and I found my best friend there she took me for a ride saying that she enrolled already but in fact she wasn’t because I know her and she’s never ever done exercises and them her boyfriend was pulling a wool over my eyes trying to cover her. Is it right, Isn’t it.? I wasn’t born yesterday.
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Some years ago pupils of my class tried to put wool over my eyes on April 1st. They suddenly stood up all together and made ready to go outside - telling me it was their regular pause and I hadn't heard the ring! They really thought they could take me for a ride, but I wasn't born yesterday and so I laughed, put on my coat and went out, too... and in fact I put wool over their eyes! :-)
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hi, you are very good teacher. you increased my knowledge and i am not taking you for a ride.
thanks
good luck
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First time I bought a packet of cigarette to try, my mother found it in my bag. I said that I was hiding for my friend. I pulled the wook over her eyes but she wasn't born yesterday so I took first serious punishment from my mother.
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When I was a child, my mother took me for ride telling me that if ate all food I would be a very tall woman...years later she tried to pulled me the wool over my eyes but i told her that I was not born yesterday ... I hope having written well ...
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when i was child my parent took me for a ride telling me that santa claus existed. they pulling the wool over someone's eyes .
But i wasn't born yesterday, so i discovered the truth at the age of twelve!
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I all the time would think that English is very tough for me to learn.this was my belief, when my teacher got about my belief so he took me for a ride.so now i can speak, can read, can understand and can writte.
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My friend was telling me a story which he told happened with him.after the story i realize a movie which was very same to his story .then i told him i wasn't born yesterday.
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I've been living in london for 4 years and because sometimes many bad things can happen to me, I have to pull the wool over her eyes sometimes in order for her not to be worry about me. But obviously she is my mother and she knows when something is wrong with me, she wasn't born yesterday.
Like the another day I was so disappointed that I did not get the job that I was applying for. To be honest I wasn't in a really good mood but because my mother call me that day I have to take her for a ride and put my happy face in front of the camera.
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In my workplace, people in a committee devise what is presented in a faculty meeting so as to pull the wool over attendants of the meeting. Due to this deceit, they are taken a ride, and things not so good are determined. Character of a person who is a top of the meeting I think appears in this event. I wonder whether organisation like mine is numerous or not.
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My husband used to take me for a ride in the first year of marriage!
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When my son ask me something about why I come back home so late. I try to pull the wool from his eye by telling him that I visit toy store for purchasing his toy. My wife also help me to take my son for a ride. Eventually, my son discover the lie and tell me that he wasn't born yesterday.
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My boss colled me for to account for my yesterday's absence. I pulled the wool for his eyes by telling him I was ill. But he wasn't born yesterday and knew I had to have business with my new flat to attend to. From time to time I take him for a ride and he let me to do it, beacuse afterall I'm good employee.
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