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pulled one's leg
phrase
past tense of pull one's leg
Synonyms & Antonyms of pulled one's leg
to cause to believe what is untrue
- He was just pulling your leg when he said he won the lottery.
Synonyms for pulled one's leg
- bamboozled,
- beguiled,
- bluffed,
- buffaloed,
- burned
- (or burnt),
- caught,
- conned,
- cozened,
- deceived,
- deluded,
- duped,
- faked out,
- fooled,
- gaffed,
- gammoned,
- gulled,
- had,
- had on
- [chiefly British],
- hoaxed,
- hoodwinked,
- hornswoggled,
- humbugged,
- juggled,
- misguided,
- misinformed,
- misled,
- snookered,
- snowed,
- spoofed,
- strung along,
- sucked in,
- suckered,
- took in,
- tricked
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“Pulled one's leg.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pulled%20one%27s%20leg. Accessed 24 Jan. 2022.
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