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pulled one's leg

phrase , past tense of pull one's leg

Synonyms and 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 of 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

Words Related to pulled one's leg

kidded, put on, teased

bled, cheated, chiseled (or chiselled), defrauded, diddled, euchred, fleeced, flimflammed, gypped, hustled, mulcted, rooked, shortchanged, skinned, squeezed, stuck, stung, swindled

Phrases Synonymous with pulled one's leg

did a number on, led one down the garden path (also led one up the garden path), pulled the wool over one's eyes

Near Antonyms of pulled one's leg

debunked, exposed, revealed, showed up, uncloaked, uncovered, unmasked

disclosed, divulged, told, unveiled

disabused, disenchanted, disillusioned

Antonyms of pulled one's leg

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