pulling someone's plumes
pulling someone's plumes is the present participle and gerund of pull someone's plumes.
Meaning of pull someone's plumes
Verb
pull someone's plumes (third-person singular simple present pulls someone's plumes, present participle pulling someone's plumes, simple past and past participle pulled someone's plumes)
- To humble, to puncture the pride of
- that Tamburlaine:
That like a Foxe in midſt of harueſt time,
Dooth pray vppon my flockes of Passengers:
And as I heare, doth meane to pull my plumes […]c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC...
- that Tamburlaine:
Questions about pulling someone's plumes
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- Pulling someone's plumes is the present participle and gerund of pull someone's plumes.
Words near pulling someone's plumes in the dictionary
- pulling someone's bacon out of the fire
- pulling someone's chestnuts out of the fire
- pulling someone's fat out of the fire
- pulling someone's leg
- pulling someone's plonker
- pulling someone's plumes
- pulling strings
- pulling teeth
- pulling the fire alarm
- pulling the football
- pulling the ladder up after oneself
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