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pull strings

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To manipulate, especially by asking favours of.

He has the job not because of talent, but because his dad pulled strings with the boss.

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Pull Strings

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To secretly influence something with great impact, to control something from distance

We are grateful to Jack because by pulling strings, he made us saw the concert in the very first row.

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