under false pretenses
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If you do something under false pretenses, you lie about who you are, what you are doing, or what you intend to do, in order to get something:
He was deported for entering the country under false pretenses.
If you're not going to offer me a job, then you've brought me here under false pretenses (= y
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- If you do something under false pretenses, you lie about who you are, what you are doing, or what you intend to do, in order to get something: He was deported for entering the country under false pretenses. If you're not going to offer me a job, then you've brought me here under false pretenses (= you have deceived me in order to make me come here)...
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