pull leg

Meaning

1. Oxford100% of films

   to play a joke on sb, usually by making them believe sth that is not true

   She's just pulling your leg, isn't she?

   Come on, Ma. Who's pulling your leg?

In the movies · 3

• Come on, Ma. Who's pulling your leg?Requiem for a Dream2000
• She's just pulling your leg, isn't she?The Proposal2009
• Girls: [ Giggling ]Anne of Avonlea1987
• Pull your legs in.The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent2022
• Boom! With that, i pull my leg in, shut that door.Going Clear: Scientology & the Prison of Belief2015
• You are pulling my leg?Hot Fuzz2007
• No, I'm just pulling your leg.Daddy Day Care2003
• You've got to be pulling on my leg!Despicable Me2010

Learn it in full scenes

• The Proposal2009
  • Margaret Fires Bob
  • Margaret Announces a Fake Engagement
  • Margaret Fakes a Marriage Interview

From the same entry

• pull a fast one
• pull in different directions
• pull the other one
• pull out all the stops
• pull the plug on
• pull your punches
• pull rabbit out of the hat
• pull rank
• pull the rug from under feet
• pull your socks up
• pull strings
• pull the strings

More idioms

• the sooner the better
• with the exception of
• take your place
• on the line
• make a mountain out of a molehill
• the apple of eye
• go through the roof
• go to the ends of the earth
• i should hope so
• you win
• like shit
• back on track