| 词汇 | hoodwink |
| 词源 | hoodwink. Blindman’s buff was known as the “hoodwinke game” in Elizabethan times. Players would hoodwink, or blind- fold, a player who would then grope around to find the others. From the game came the expression to hoodwink someone, “to deceive or trick a person, to leave him groping about for his money.” |
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