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Leg People Pull Annoyed Teasing Pulling Tease Fool

Idiom Pull Your Leg
Example Oh, don't get so annoyed at them for teasing you. They're just pulling your leg.
Meaning to tease or fool someone; to jokingly try to lie to somebody
Origin By the late 1800s people sometimes tripped other people by catching their legs with a cane or running a string across the sidewalk. Sometimes it was just for fun; at other times robbers did it to steal from the victim after he or she had fallen.

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