{"id":3527,"date":"2018-09-16T17:07:43","date_gmt":"2018-09-16T17:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=3527"},"modified":"2018-09-13T17:09:59","modified_gmt":"2018-09-13T17:09:59","slug":"phrasal-verbs-and-idioms-with-pull","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/phrasal-verbs-and-idioms-with-pull\/","title":{"rendered":"Phrasal Verbs And Idioms With Pull"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a list of phrasal verbs and idioms with pull.<\/p>\n<h3>Pull someone\u2019s leg<\/h3>\n<p>To pull someone\u2019s leg is to deceive them for a joke.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I was horrified when my brother told me that I had failed the test, but later I realized that he was just pulling my leg.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Pull something off<\/h3>\n<p>To pull something off is to succeed at doing something difficult.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I never thought that she would be able to make a presentation in front of 500 people but she pulled it off.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Pull out<\/h3>\n<p>To pull out is to withdraw.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>She pulled out of the tournament at the last moment without offering any explanation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Pull strings<\/h3>\n<p>To pull strings is to make use of your influence to gain an advantage.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Although my dad is a politician he never pulls strings for us.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Pull yourself together<\/h3>\n<p>To pull yourself together is to regain your self control.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Just pull yourself together. I know you are upset but there is no point in fighting with him at this moment.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Pull your weight<\/h3>\n<p>To pull your weight is to do your fair share of work.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If you cannot pull your weight, you had better leave.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a list of phrasal verbs and idioms with pull. Pull someone\u2019s leg To pull someone\u2019s leg is to deceive them for a joke. I was horrified when my brother told me that&#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":[16,2],"tags":[678,676,677],"class_list":["post-3527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-idioms","category-phrasal-verbs","tag-phrasal-verbs-with-pull","tag-pull-idioms","tag-pull-phrasal-verbs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3527","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=3527"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3528,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3527\/revisions\/3528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}