Search Result for "lead_by_the_nose":
Wordnet 3.0

VERB (1)

1. conceal one's true motives from especially by elaborately feigning good intentions so as to gain an end;
- Example: "He bamboozled his professors into thinking that he knew the subject well"
[syn: bamboozle, snow, hoodwink, pull the wool over someone's eyes, lead by the nose, play false]



WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

lead by the nose
    v 1: 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" [syn: bamboozle, snow, hoodwink, pull
         the wool over someone's eyes, lead by the nose, play
         false]