jerk (one's) chain

To tease someone, often by trying to convince him or her of something untrue. Quit jerking my chain, I know there isn't a Hollywood director calling me right now. I love jerking my sister's chain—it's almost too easy to annoy her.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Jerome	jə-ROM	English
Gershom	GUR-shahm (English)	Biblical, Biblical Hebrew
Dorotea	do-ro-TE-ah (Italian, Spanish), DO-ro-te-ah (Finnish)	Italian, Spanish, Swedish, Finnish, Croatian
Aristotelis	-	Greek
Edyta	e-DI-tah	Polish
Emyr	-	Welsh