pull wires

1. 1.

   influence or control shrewdly or deviously

   “He manipulated public opinion in his favor”

   Synonymsmanipulatepull strings

   Broaderinfluence

Questions about pull wires

What does pull wires mean?

pull wires means "influence or control shrewdly or deviously".

What is another word for pull wires?

Close synonyms include manipulate, pull strings. 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 wires a common word?

pull wires 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.