someone : Idioms & Phrases

Index

break someone's heart

  • verb cause deep emotional pain and grief to somebody
    • The young man broke the girl's heart when he told her was going to marry her best friend
WordNet

in someone's way

  • adverb forming a hindrance, impediment, or obstruction
    in the way.
    • she might have succeeded in her ambition, had not circumstances been in her way
WordNet

pull someone's leg

  • verb subject to a playful hoax or joke
    hoax; play a joke on.
WordNet

pull the wool over someone's eyes

  • verb conceal one's true motives from especially by elaborately feigning good intentions so as to gain an end
    lead by the nose; play false; snow; hoodwink; bamboozle.
    • He bamboozled his professors into thinking that he knew the subject well
WordNet