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
Madalyn	MAD-ə-lin	English
Fionnuala	-	Irish, Irish Mythology
Titus	['taitəs]
Tanja	TAHN-yah (German, Finnish)	German, Finnish, Serbian, Croatian, Slovene, Macedonian, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian
Iedida	-	Biblical Greek
Sharise	-	English (Rare)