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Pull strings.
If you pull strings, you use contacts you have got to help you get what you want.
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Julie pulls strings, but in vain.
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When staff or faculty members fall ill, he pulls strings to insure that they get the best medical care.
Another continues to bring her second child into her bed when he cries, saying he "pulls strings I didn't know I had".
But hey, at least he goes home to his loving kids, gets his way at work and pulls strings to help Don's mistress's kid.
In private, she ties knots and pulls strings and ultimately tugs on the thread that binds the entire story (of the movie, of the place, of the country, of the time) together and decisively makes its hidden grand narrative unravel.
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Behind the scenes he pulled strings.
They called in favours, they pulled strings.
Today, he is clearly pulling strings behind the scenes.
Samir Nasri is pulling strings like a player unshackled.
But Congress shouldn't be pulling strings for anyone.
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