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". ...
as evidenced by a 1904 article in the New York Magazine which explicitly defines the meaning. Originally, the phrase had to do with dancing and dancers. An 1863 advertisement for a ball stated: “Nearly every man in town able to shake a leg has purchased a ticket.” From there, the...