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pull someone's chain

pull someone's chain verb: used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pull, chain. Also the alternative form of yank someone's chain.

Verb

pull someone's chain (third-person singular simple present pulls someone's chain, present participle pulling someone's chain, simple past and past participle pulled someone's chain)

  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pull, chain.

Also used as

pull someone's chain is also the alternative form of yank someone's chain.

Forms of pull someone's chain

third-person singular presentpulls someone's chain
present participlepulling someone's chain
past participlepulled someone's chain
pastpulled someone's chain

Questions about pull someone's chain

What does pull someone's chain mean?
Pull someone's chain means used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pull, chain.
What part of speech is pull someone's chain?
Pull someone's chain is a verb.
What is the past tense of pull someone's chain?
The past tense of pull someone's chain is pulled someone's chain.

Words near pull someone's chain in the dictionary

  1. pull shots
  2. pull someone down a peg
  3. pull someone off the ceiling
  4. pull someone over the coals
  5. pull someone's bacon out of the fire
  6. pull someone's chain
  7. pull someone's chestnuts out of the fire
  8. pull someone's fat out of the fire
  9. pull someone's leg
  10. pull someone's plonker
  11. pull someone's plumes

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