put one over
verb1
Idiomatic To succeed in a deception.
- "[Y]ou surely aren't thinking you can put one over on me in this business? Tell me, you don't take me for that sort of ivory-skulled boob?"1913, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 9, in The Little Nugget:
- He is the bad-boy-made-good, and in Brazil, particularly in Rio de Janeiro, everyone loves someone who can put one over on authority.2007 May 16, Andrew Downie, “Brazil Braces for a (Bogus) Soccer Milestone”, in Time, retrieved 28 Jun 2015:
- Related terms
- put on, put-up