{"id":1472,"date":"2016-09-20T16:56:37","date_gmt":"2016-09-20T16:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=1472"},"modified":"2016-09-20T16:56:37","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T16:56:37","slug":"phrasal-verbs-with-pull","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/phrasal-verbs-with-pull\/","title":{"rendered":"Phrasal verbs with pull"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some idiomatic expressions with pull.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pull back<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To pull back is to retreat.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The infiltrators pulled back when army started firing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Pull someone\u2019s leg<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To pull someone\u2019s leg is to deceive them for a joke.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>My brother always pulls my leg.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Pull something off<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To pull something off is to succeed in doing something difficult.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pull out<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To pull out is to withdraw.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Injury forced him to pull out of the tournament.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Pull strings<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To pull strings is to make use of your influence to gain an advantage.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Our politicians are never tired of pulling strings.<\/li>\n<li>His parents pulled strings to ensure that he got the job.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Pull yourself together<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To pull yourself together is to regain your self-control.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The news had shaken her but she quickly pulled herself together.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Pull your weight<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To pull your weight is to do your fair share of work.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If everyone pulls their weight, we will be able to finish this job before sunset.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some idiomatic expressions with pull. Pull back To pull back is to retreat. The infiltrators pulled back when army started firing. Pull someone\u2019s leg To pull someone\u2019s leg is to deceive them&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[316],"class_list":["post-1472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-phrasal-verbs","tag-phrasal-verb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1472"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1473,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1472\/revisions\/1473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}