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Definition of Pull the leg of
1. Verb. Tell false information to for fun. "Are you pulling my leg?"
Generic synonyms: Befool, Cod, Dupe, Fool, Gull, Put On, Put One Across, Put One Over, Slang, Take In
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pull The Leg Of
Literary usage of Pull the leg of
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary, Historical and by John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley (1902)
"Then I shall be able to PULL THE LEG of that chap . . . He is always trying to
do me. 1889. FRANCIS, Saddle and Mo* cassin [Slang, Jargon and Cant]. ..."
2. Atoms of Empire by Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne (1904)
"Finest sort of entertainment imaginable that, Schwartz, when you're at some
hole-in-corner foreign town, to go and solemnly pull the leg of the British ..."
3. Atoms of Empire by Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne (1904)
"Finest sort of entertainment imaginable that, Schwartz, when you're at some
hole-in-corner foreign town, to go and solemnly pull the leg of the British ..."
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