pulling your leg
Playfully deceiving you
Pulling your leg means teasing or joking with you, typically by saying something untrue to see if you'll believe it.
The phrase suggests playful deception rather than malicious lying: I'm just pulling your leg—of course I didn't sell your car.
Someone who realizes they've been fooled might ask Are you pulling my leg?
- jokingSaying things in fun
- just kiddingRetraction of a jest
- teasingPlayful, mild ridicule
- kiddingTeasing playfully
- prankingPlaying harmless tricks
fooling · jesting · ribbing · winding up · messing with · taking the piss · having on · bluffing · tricking · hoax · April Fools · gullible · laughing · playful · mischief · banter · sarcasm · deadpan
- idiomstime flies, hit the sack, seize the day, ring a bell, break a leg
- folk sayingsproverb, adage, maxim, folk saying, old saying
- deceptionlie, lies, lying, fake, fraud
sincerity
pulling your legtelling the truth
being honest · no joke · dead serious · on the level · telling it like it is
pull, pulls, pulled, puller, pulling, your, yours, yourself, yourselves