Question

Pull Your Leg to tease or fool someone; to jokingly try to lie to somebody

Accepted Answer

Oh, don't get so annoyed at them for teasing you. They're just pulling your leg. 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.

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.

Leg People Pull Annoyed Teasing Pulling Tease Fool