- 1整人玩笑（讓對方信以為真的那種）
A leg-pull is a joke in which you make someone believe something that is not true, for a short time, because you think it is funny. You are playing, not trying to steal or to hurt. It comes from the older saying pull someone's leg. In real talk people still say I'm just pulling your leg much more than they say that was a leg-pull; the noun sounds a little British and a little old. A mean lie is not a leg-pull. The word is usually written with a .
「leg-pull」指一種玩笑，你讓對方暫時相信一件不是真的事，因為你覺得好玩。這是在鬧著玩，不是要偷東西，也不是要傷害人。它來自較早的說法「pull someone's leg」，意思是逗弄某人。
日常說話中，人們更常說「I'm just pulling your leg」（我只是在逗你），而不是說那是一個 leg-pull。這個名詞聽起來有點英式，也有點舊。惡意騙人、讓人吃虧的謊話，就不算這種玩笑。
From the word’s history
From the phrase pull someone's leg.
來自片語 pull someone's leg「開某人玩笑」。
組成From the phrase pull someone's leg. The pieces look like a real leg and the verb pull, but that is not what is happening.
同家族的字
- leg-pullingthe act of telling this kind of joke
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
leg-pullnoun
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informalA joke, fib or tease.
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