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pulls someone's plumes

pulls someone's plumes is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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)

  1. (idiomatic, obsolete) 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...

Questions about pulls someone's plumes

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Pulls someone's plumes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of pull someone's plumes.

Words near pulls someone's plumes in the dictionary

  1. pulls someone's bacon out of the fire
  2. pulls someone's chestnuts out of the fire
  3. pulls someone's fat out of the fire
  4. pulls someone's leg
  5. pulls someone's plonker
  6. pulls someone's plumes
  7. pulls strings
  8. pulls teeth
  9. pulls the fire alarm
  10. pulls the football
  11. pulls the ladder up after oneself

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