leg-pulling
- n as a joke: trying to make somebody believe something that is not true
- With its dead characters who are actually alive, its young gentlemen who are really young ladies, its adored one who is really twins, its love-making that is really leg-pulling .
- Clouds over Europe (Columbia) is no international storm warning, but the most enjoyable leg-pulling in a coon's age on such favorite cinema standbys as spies, secret war gadgets .
- Used to Presidential leg-pulling, they waited for the joker.