How To Use leg-pulling In A Sentence
- A basic mistake in approaching Donaghy's work would be to assume its emotional core was at odds with its frequent leg-pulling and cod-scholarly tangents. Archive 2009-04-01
- Shaun said: ‘We had some leg-pulling from colleagues to begin with.’
- Atkinson, who mounted a successful campaign in 2004 to water down legislation aimed at criminalising expressions of religious hatred, has returned to the fray to defend the art of gay leg-pulling. Archive 2007-11-01
- Coy newcomers learned that a certain amount of leg-pulling and practical joking was the price of belonging. FIGHTER BOYS: Saving Britain 1940
- It would be silly to try to represent the duel between the Miller and the Reeve as merely good-natured fraternal leg-pulling.
- There's nothing like walking in company for making friends of strangers, and there was plenty of leg-pulling about oversleeping and its relationship to good red wine when we boarded the coach next morning.
- When in fresh company, I would embark on little wanton problems of conduct, observing the impact of this or that approach on my hearers, treating fellow-men as so many targets for intellectual ingenuity: until I could hardly tell my own self where the leg-pulling began or ended. Seven Pillars of Wisdom
- Fortunately I don't work in an environment that reads The Bookseller online or I suspect I would have been in for a fair old bit of leg-pulling about this byline, Reality check
- We tried to dissuade him, but I guessed by the gleam of mischief in his eye that that he was doing a bit of leg-pulling.
- He's now oblivious to his workmates' leg-pulling and says: ‘I wouldn't be without my three-wheeler even though I've never been above 60 mph because it shakes too much.’