pull someone's leg

1. 1.

   subject to a playful hoax or joke

   Synonymshoaxplay a joke on

   Broaderdeceive

Questions about pull someone's leg

What does pull someone's leg mean?

pull someone's leg means "subject to a playful hoax or joke".

What is another word for pull someone's leg?

Close synonyms include hoax, play a joke on. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is pull someone's leg a common word?

pull someone's leg is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.