According to my Italian grandmother, who grew up in Porto, this idiom comes from pirate days. When the peg-legged boson was sufficiently drunk on rum and pillaging, he would trick the new shipmates by having them pull his leg. The new shipmate was ignorant of the peg, and once it came...
Today's Idiom = "Pulling Your Leg"Send Me The GoEnglish Weekly Preview of English Idioms Pulling Your Leg ( making a joke by tricking another person ... )"Pulling Your Leg"When someone makes a joke by lying to you and pretending that the lie is true, they are "pulling your leg". ...