- pull your chain
- Pull your chain(USA) If someone pulls your chain, they take advantage of you in an unfair way or do something to annoy you.
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pull your chain
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pull your chain — ask you what you think, ask for your opinion If we want your opinion we ll pull your chain. We ll ask you … English idioms
pull\ your\ chain — To tease or needle someone just to get a reaction from her. (ED. Common slang usage.) Don t take him seriously, he s just jerking your chain, trying to get you angry … Dictionary of american slang
pull\ your\ chain — To tease or needle someone just to get a reaction from her. (ED. Common slang usage.) Don t take him seriously, he s just jerking your chain, trying to get you angry … Dictionary of american slang
pull your chain — (USA) If someone pulls your chain, they take advantage of you in an unfair way or do something to annoy you. (Dorking School Dictionary) … English Idioms & idiomatic expressions
pull your chain — vp To annoy, bother. Boyd has been awfully quiet lately; let spull his chain and ask how he is doing with that girl who just left him. 1980s … Historical dictionary of American slang
pull (someone's) chain — pull/yank (someone s) chain American & Australian, informal to say or do something that upsets another person, especially because you enjoy upsetting them. Boy, she really knows how to pull your chain! … New idioms dictionary
chain — chain1 W2S3 [tʃeın] n ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(joined rings)¦ 2¦(connected events)¦ 3¦(shops/hotels)¦ 4¦(connected line)¦ 5¦(prisoners)¦ 6¦(buying a house)¦ ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ [Date: 1200 1300; : Old French; Origin: chaeine, from Latin catena] … Dictionary of contemporary English
yank (someone's) chain — pull/yank (someone s) chain American & Australian, informal to say or do something that upsets another person, especially because you enjoy upsetting them. Boy, she really knows how to pull your chain! … New idioms dictionary
Chain stitch — Stitch Stitch, n. [OE. stiche, AS. stice a pricking, akin to stician to prick. See {Stick}, v. i.] 1. A single pass of a needle in sewing; the loop or turn of the thread thus made. [1913 Webster] 2. A single turn of the thread round a needle in… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Your Five Gallants — is a Jacobean comedy by Thomas Middleton. It falls into the sub genre of city comedy. Allusions in the play point to a date of authorship of 1607.The play was entered into the Stationers Register on March 22, 1608. The quarto published by… … Wikipedia
