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• throw dust in someone's eyes — (figurative) To deceive someone • • • Main Entry: ↑dust * * * seek to mislead or deceive someone by misrepresentation or distraction …   Useful english dictionary

• throw dust in someone's eyes —    If you throw dust in someone s eyes, you prevent them from seeing the truth by misleading them.     He threw dust in the old lady s eyes by pretending to be a police officer, then stole her jewellery …   English Idioms & idiomatic expressions

• throw dust in eyes —    If you throw dust in someone s eyes, you prevent them from seeing the truth by misleading them.     He threw dust in the old lady s eyes by pretending to be a police officer, then stole her jewellery …   English Idioms & idiomatic expressions

• dust — [dust] n. [ME < OE, akin to MLowG: for IE base see DUN1] 1. powdery earth or other matter in bits fine enough to be easily suspended in air 2. a cloud of such matter 3. confusion; turmoil 4. a) earth, esp. as the place of burial …   English World dictionary

• dust — dustless, adj. /dust/, n. 1. earth or other matter in fine, dry particles. 2. a cloud of finely powdered earth or other matter in the air. 3. any finely powdered substance, as sawdust. 4. the ground; the earth s surface. 5. the substance to which …   Universalium

• dust — /dʌst / (say dust) noun 1. earth or other matter in fine, dry particles. 2. any finely powdered substance, as sawdust. 3. a cloud of finely powdered earth or other matter in the air. 4. that to which anything, as the human body, is reduced by… …  

• throw dust in a person's eyes — lead someone astray, misguide someone …   English contemporary dictionary

• throw sand in the eyes — throw dust in the eyes of, deceive, confuse someone via deception …   English contemporary dictionary

• deception — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Misrepresentation Nouns 1. (act of deceiving) deception, deceptiveness; falseness, falsehood, untruth; imposition, imposture, misinformation, disinformation; fraud, fraudulence, deceit, deceitfulness,… …   English dictionary for students

• bluff — I adj 1. frank, open, honest, candid, plain spoken, outspoken; direct, plain, straightforward, downright; crude, rough, unvarnished, burly, blustering. 2. steep, sheer, abrupt, sudden, precipitous; perpendicular, vertical; acclivitous, ascending …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

• List of Marvel Family enemies — Through his adventures, Fawcett Comics/DC Comics superhero Captain Marvel and his Marvel Family gained a host of enemies, including the following: Contents 1 Acrobat 2 Adolf Hitler 3 Amoeba Family …   Wikipedia