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| pull punches | To word something delicately to avoid giving offense or inciting anger. |
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Some more phrases from our dictionary similar to pull punches
pull the plugpull the other one, it's got brass bell…pull someone down a pegpull the other one, it's got bells onpull someone's legpull oneself up by one's bootstrapspull out all the stopspull out of one's asspull outpull one's punchespull the other one, it's got bells onpull one's socks uppull out of the firepull the other one
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