вводить в заблуждение
Meaning: To deceive or mislead someone deliberately.
Language: Russian
Literally: to put into delusion
Category: Daily Life
Origin: The phrase draws on the image of placing someone into a state of mental confusion or false belief, as if guiding them into a trap of misunderstanding.
More idioms — Daily Life
- сарафанное радио — The informal spread of gossip or news from person to person, especially by word of mouth.
- нечего греха таить — Truth be told; one might as well admit something true and damning rather than conceal it.
- Pédaler dans la semoule — To be confused and getting nowhere.
- Avoir d'autres chats à fouetter — To have more important things to do.
- Avoir le cul entre deux chaises — To be indecisive, caught between two options.
- Les carottes sont cuites — It's too late, nothing can be done.
More Russian idioms
- пускаться во все тяжкие — To abandon restraint and indulge recklessly in vices or wrongdoing without scruple.
- хоть ложись и умирай — There is no escape or solution; one must accept an impossible or desperate situation.
- на коленке — Done hastily and without proper tools or technique; improvised or makeshift.
- козёл отпущения — A person blamed or punished for the wrongs of others; a scapegoat.
- хоть убей — For the life of me; under no circumstances or condition could one do something.
- хоть умри — No matter what the cost or consequence; absolutely and without exception.
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