lull into

Idioms and Phrases

Deceive into trustfulness, as in The steadily rising market lulled investors into a false sense of security . The earliest recorded version of this term referred to wine: “Fitter indeed to bring and lull men asleep in the bed of security” (Philemon Holland, Pliny's Historie of the World , 1601. Today it still often appears with the phrase a false sense of security .