pull someone's leg

Play a joke on, tease, as in Are you serious about moving back in or are you pulling my leg? This term is thought to allude to tripping someone by so holding a stick or other object that one of his legs is pulled back. [Late 1800s]

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Goranka	-	Croatian, Serbian
AoibhÍN	EE-veen	Irish
Nathaniel	nə-THAN-ee-əl (English), nə-THAN-yəl (English)	English, Biblical
Bojan	BO-yahn (Serbian, Croatian, Macedonian)	Serbian, Croatian, Slovene, Macedonian
Ennio	EN-nyo	Italian
Uriel	YUWR-ee-əl (English)	Biblical, Hebrew