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"pulling my strings" is a correct and commonly used phrase in written English
It is typically used to describe someone or something exerting control or influence over someone else. It can be used to express feelings of manipulation or being controlled. Example: "I can't believe she convinced me to do that; she's always pulling my strings."
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As president, my paltry poll numbers prove that Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid are truly the puppeteers who are pulling my strings.
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And who told you to pull my strings?
I'm not an entryist, no-one pulls my strings.
More Arts News In a voice pitched between a hiss and a whisper, Ms. Gainsbourg sings: Hold my head up Right foot back Take my hands down Shake my back Pull my strings And cut my rope It is Ms. Gainsbourg's signature vocal maneuver.
"So here I am marching in like a queen, and I got to the top of the stairs and I pulled my silky string, and it would not come undone.
For example, variables for the way of gaining entry to work are −1, 0, and 1, standing for variation from pulling strings to not pulling strings, being invariant, and from not pulling strings to pulling strings, separately.
At one performance I could feel someone pulling the strings on my corset.
In her email to TechCrunch, Horvath says she felt "confused and insulted to think that a woman who was not employed by my company was pulling the strings".
But they don't get on their high horse and start pulling strings — " I interrupted, my voice higher, tighter than before.
This will never cease pulling at my heart-strings: not that I wish it would".
Maybe I got into my industry because it was the family business or because my parents pulled some strings.
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