play someone like a fiddle »
Skilfully.
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pore over »
To examine something carefully and attentively.
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pronunciamiento »
A military uprising or coup in Spain or the Spanish American republics, particularly in the 19th century. They received this designation because coups were usually accompanied by a statement declaring the existing government null and void.
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proverbs run in pairs »
Every proverb seems to be contradicted by another proverb with an opposed message, such as "too many cooks spoil the broth" and "many hands make light work."1863, Sir Richard Burton, Abeokuta and the Camaroons Mountains, vol. 1, Tinsley (London), p. 309:Moreover, all the world over, proverbs run in pairs, and pull both ways: for the most part one neutralizes, by contradiction, the other.
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pull a »
He pulled an Elvis and got really fat.
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pull a »
To emulate a behaviour generally attributed to the individual named.
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pull a face »
To make an abnormal facial expression.
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pull a fast one »
To deceive or trick.
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pull an all-nighter »
Work diligently throughout the night.
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pull apart »
To open something by pulling on various parts of it.
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pull away »
To move ahead.
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pull my finger »
A phrase used when playing a prank regarding flatulence, in which a mark is asked to pull the finger of the person playing the prank, who simultaneously flatulates so as to suggest a causal relationship between the pulling of the finger and the resulting expulsion of gas.
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pull off »
To remove by pulling.
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pull off »
To achieve; to succeed at something difficult.
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pull one's finger out »
To stop wasting time in preliminaries, and concentrate on the important task.
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