leg-pulling


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leg-pulling

n
the act of performing practical jokes
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.leg-pulling - as a joke: trying to make somebody believe something that is not true
jest, joke, jocularity - activity characterized by good humor
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Translations

leg-pulling

[ˈlegˌpʊlɪŋ] Ntomadura f de pelo
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

leg-pulling

[ˈlɛgˌpʊlɪŋ] n (fam) → scherzi mpl
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Despite all the leg-pulling, Elis has a lot of respect for the farming community.
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Zardari asked the anti-graft watchdog to refrain from leg-pulling of industrialists.
When a gender at odds family breaks the vicious circle of leg-pulling, mud-slinging and fault-finding and learns to mutually address joys, sorrows, issues or problems, the net result is mutual rewards.
"A more disastrous situation would hit the party hard if the leadership in the party remains busy in infighting and leg-pulling," sources in the MQM-P confided on Saturday and added that results of the by-elections would prove this.
However, he lamented that some elements were continuously engaged in leg-pulling activities to stop the country progressing towards development and prosperity.
If a little bit of leg-pulling over a lost football match is enough to provoke a response like that, I don't ever want to see him back on the telly.
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he treated them to some classic Brucie exasperation and leg-pulling. He made light of his advanced years, cursed his occasional forgetfulness and showed us how he has taught himself to tap-dance sitting down.