pull the leg of

1. 1.

   tell false information to for fun

   “Are you pulling my leg?”

   Synonymskid

   Broadergull

Questions about pull the leg of

What does pull the leg of mean?

pull the leg of means "tell false information to for fun".

What is another word for pull the leg of?

Close synonyms include kid. 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 the leg of a common word?

pull the leg of 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.