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Zeppe Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

idiom about deceiving someone

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00we have, in italy, an idiom that sounds like: "Who do you want to deceive?" ("Chi vuoi ingannare/prendere in giro", for the italian people). 02br
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00I get often confused with those idioms, because most of them seem to make sense also in english but actually nobody would use them... 02br
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00I've googled that phrase and I found no particular matches, so my question is: would someone understand such an exclamation? What would you use to express a concept like "I've realized you are trying to deceive me!"?0-
  

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0We do have something similar with the same meaning.02br
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00Who are you trying to kid?!02br
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00Kid= verb 'to deceive as a joke'.0-
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0In my mother tongue, your base sentence does have the connotation of what you mentioned. 02br
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00Besides, it also denotes that apparently everybody knows that you are trying to deceive me.0-
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0 Hey there, Zeppe02br
00good question, there are a lot of Italian expressions I still can't say in English, I found out that often there's not even a corresponding expression in English, unfortunately...02br
00As for "who are you deceiving/ who are you making fun of?" (chi pensi di prendere in giro?), I thought maybe this would work:02br
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0 Ooh yes, that's another good one in English. 0-
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0If it's still good natured (you're not truly angry):02br
00I wasn't born yesterday, you know.02br
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00I didn't just fall off the turnip truck.0-
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0 01i00Who are you trying to fool? 02i00 (a rhetorical question, the answer being "me", of course) was the first thought that came to mind, but the others suggested earlier are also good translations.02br
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you could say "who are you trying to kid?" or more colloquially "who you tryin to kid?" or even "who you kiddin?" or again "you kiddin me?" This is American and I don't know if they understand "kid" for "deceive" in England. If not substitute "fool".
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Who are you trying to con?
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