Lead by the nose

Usage examples of bamboozle.

For instance, did you know Master Cung managed to bamboozle three hundred armfuls of silk, a skepful of Sui dynasty myrrh, twenty golden flagons of rice wine, forty she goats and thirty pheasants from the Chinese?

Cursing himself for being softheaded and the old lady for bamboozling him, Sandy began scrounging through his apartment for spare cash and found a quarter, two pennies, and four nickels.

The producers thought it would be instructive to explore how easily a faith-healer or guru could be created to bamboozle the public and the media.

Doubtless, an attorney for the defence will try to bamboozle a jury into believing the police got the wrong man.

Finding the occasional straw of truth awash in a great ocean of confusion and bamboozle requires vigilance, dedication and courage.

Baloney, bamboozles, careless thinking, flimflam and wishes disguised as facts are not restricted to parlour magic and ambiguous advice on matters of the heart.

So it was that, by the time Zenos and his mother awakened to the fact that they had been duped and bamboozled out of the game, Lukos had both the Council of Nobles and the army and navy solidly on the hip.

For more than a decade, George Wallace has bamboozled the national press and terrified the ranking fixers in both major parties.

Anybody who could deceive the musically sophisticated with such ease would have no trouble at all in bamboozling the public.

I remembered his words as my plane started its descent towards Delhi, so the word bamboozle was my one preparation for the rich, noisy, functioning madness of India.

That the man I knew as wise should once have been so confused, so bamboozled by Cupid, so befooled by a girl, so dominated by his instructors, so wanting in self-determination, was unbearable.

His father thought he was a criminal, and Cassie had them all bamboozled.

That she, the strong-minded Amazon, the lion-hearted wielder of the sword of justice, the indomitable scorner of men should thus have been cozened, baffled, bamboozled like any groundling or village dolt was inconceivable.

In it could be found the histories of boom-and-bust economic crazes, including the Mississippi and South Sea `Bubbles' and the extravagant run on Dutch tulips, scams that bamboozled the wealthy and titled of many nations.

One of the saddest lessons of history is this: if we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle.