Sentence examples for pulling their leg from inspiring English sources

They thought he was pulling their leg.

"Maybe he was just pulling their leg.

"They think you work out of your house," he said, "or it's just you in a room and you're pulling their leg".

They figured out that I was pulling their leg, but they needed me to go through this act.

They figured out that I was pulling their leg but they needed me to go through with it.

The incident happened on April 1, which means that everyone he told thought he was pulling their leg.

His dry-as-a-bone sense of humour sometimes landed him in trouble in the chamber, as some peers did not realise that he was pulling their legs, and he pleaded with his staff to do all they could to stop him telling jokes in the House.

Texas Governor Rick Perry said he worried that "every time I screwed up at a debate people would figure out I was pulling their legs," but added, "The American people seemed to accept the idea that a governor of Texas could be a blithering idiot".

Jaffe, it turned out, was pulling their legs.

Alternately, people can try lying on their back and stretching the hamstrings with a yoga belt, and tightening the hamstrings at the same time as pulling their legs toward their face, Mitchell said.

When not hunting for prey or a mate, Portia species adopt a special posture, called the "cryptic rest posture", pulling their legs in close to the body and their palps back beside the chelicerae ("jaws"), which obscures the outlines of these appendages.