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the phrase "fall into sth's deception", is it correct?

 
 
Reply Sun 23 Oct, 2011 02:49 am
what i want to express is "be fooled by something for the rest of your life". but I cannot seem to find a more formal way to say it. so if i use this phrase "permanently fall into its deception", can it be accepted? if not, can you help me to come up with something else? thanks
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Reply Sun 23 Oct, 2011 03:13 am
@lizfeehily,
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Perhaps "...fall into its web of deception" ...is slightly better.
The style of the rest of your context might indicate alternative phrases like :
"be entrapped by...",
"suffer the bondage of...",
" be irrevocably transfixed by..."
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Reply Sun 23 Oct, 2011 03:15 am
@lizfeehily,
There's not any convenient phrase that i can think of. However, i would like to point out that you're not using the common preposition. If one is being fooled about something, one is said to "fall for something," To fall "into" something simply means to become involved in it--there is no conotation of being fooled or swindled.
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