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pull someone down a peg	To lower someone's high self-opinion.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
pull someone's bacon out of the fire	To rescue someone, especially at the last moment.	Rate it: (3.00 / 2 votes)
pull someone's leg	To tease someone; to lead someone on; to goad someone into overreacting. It usually implies teasing or goading by jokingly lying.	Rate it: (5.00 / 1 vote)
pull strings	To manipulate, especially by asking favours of.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
Pull Strings	To secretly influence something with great impact, to control something from distance	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
pull teeth	To do something that is especially difficult or effortful.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
pull teeth	To remove teeth, usually because they are diseased or damaged.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
pull the other leg	In imperative/precative form, used to imply that the speaker does not accept or believe what another has just said.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
pull the other one	Alternative form of pull the other one, it's got bells on	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
pull the other one, it's got bells on	The implication is that one leg has been pulled, and the joker will have more fun with the other one due to the bells.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
pull the other one, it's got bells on	Monty Python's Holy Grail.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
pull the other one, it's got brass bells on	Alternative form of pull the other one, it's got bells on	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
pull the plug	To cease from production or publication.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
pull the plug	To cease life support.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
pull the plug	To cease to support; to halt.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
pull the plug	To unplug or cut power.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
pull the rug out from under	To suddenly remove support from	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
pull the rug out from under someone	To suddenly remove support from someone.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
Pull the Rug out from Under You	To ruin someone’s dreams, hopes or plans, to suddenly withdraw support	Rate it: (4.50 / 2 votes)
pull the trigger	To commit to a course of action.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
pull the trigger	To fire a gun.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
pull the wool over someone's eyes	To deceive (someone).	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
Pull the Wool over Your Eyes	To play trick with someone making him or her fool, to deceive or cheat someone	Rate it: (1.00 / 1 vote)
pull through	A length of cord about a metre long with a narrow cylindrical weight at one end and loops at the other. Used for cleaning rifle barrels, by pulling through a piece of cloth.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
pull together	To unite for a common objective.	Rate it: (4.00 / 3 votes)
pull up	Lift upwards or vertically.	Rate it: (3.00 / 1 vote)
pull up	Retrieve; get.	Rate it: (3.00 / 1 vote)
pull up	Drive close to something, especially a curb.	Rate it: (3.00 / 1 vote)
pull up a chair	Used other than as an idiom: see pull up, a, chair.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
pull up a chair	To sit down on a chair: to go from a non-seated position to sitting on a chair.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
pull up a floor	Used other than as an idiom: see pull up, a, floor.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
pull up a floor	Sit down on a floor.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
pull up stakes	To prepare to move one's usually temporary habitation, especially rapidly.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
Pull up Stakes	Leaving one’s job, home or country to another place that offers better things	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
pull up stumps	To cease doing something, at least for the day.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
Pull Your Leg	To tease someone by making fun of him or her.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
Pull Yourself Together	To calm down or settle after bring frustrated or, to control one’s emotions and anger	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
rip off	To pull off by ripping.	Rate it: (4.43 / 7 votes)
rip up	tear apart	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
root up	To dig or pull up by the roots; to deracinate.	Rate it: (3.00 / 1 vote)
rug pull	Mostly, a type of crypto scam where developers raise funds from investors and then ditch the project they used to create the buzz.	Rate it: (5.00 / 1 vote)
rust off	to come apart, from the process of rusting.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
set apart	To select (something or someone) for a specific purpose.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
set apart	To distinguish, make obvious the distinction between (two things) or of (something).	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
set apart	Used other than as an idiom: to separate or isolate.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
shuck down	to pull down forcefully.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
split up	cause to come apart, separate or split	Rate it: (5.00 / 1 vote)
spread out	Become further apart.	Rate it: (4.00 / 2 votes)
spread out	To place items further apart.	Rate it: (3.00 / 1 vote)
stand off	To stand some distance apart form something or someone.	Rate it: (4.00 / 2 votes)

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