English in a Minute: Phrases with 'pull'
Learning English Vocabulary
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4.5 • 523 Ratings
🗓️ 6 November 2025
⏱️ 1 minutes
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Summary
Learn 4 phrases with 'pull' here. You'll enjoy it – we're not pulling your leg!
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:06.0 | You're listening to BBC LearningEnglish.com. |
| 0:10.7 | This video will teach you everything you've ever wanted to know. |
| 0:15.1 | Sorry, I'm just pulling your leg. |
| 0:17.4 | It'll teach you four phrases with pull. Pull your leg. It'll teach you four phrases with pull. |
| 0:28.6 | Pull your leg means tell someone something that isn't true. There's a joke. I don't believe that sing as your cousin. |
| 0:32.6 | You're pulling my leg. |
| 0:34.6 | Now, it's time to pull myself together. That means take control of my emotions |
| 0:40.7 | and act calmly. You're too excited. Pull yourself together and finish the work. If you have a lot of |
| 0:48.2 | work, you might need to pull out all the stops to get it finished. That means do everything you can to get something done. |
| 0:57.3 | I thought I'd miss the deadline, but I pulled out all the stops and got it finished. |
| 1:02.9 | If a project's not working, you can pull the plug on it. That means end it. We're pulling the |
| 1:09.4 | plug on this program. |
| 1:11.9 | No one watches it. |
| 1:17.2 | Pull yourself together and pull out all the stops to learn these phrases. |
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