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MUSCOVITE Posted 12 years ago
Vocabulary

AE equivalent of "leg-pull"

Hi,

Ex.: Oh dear... I am really sick and tired of your leg-pulls...

I understand the noun leg-pull is kind of uncommon to AmEng speakers?
How to make my example sentence look "less BE specific"?

leg-pull (BE) = ??? (AE)

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MUSCOVITE I understand the noun leg-pull is kind of uncommon to AmEng speakers? Yes, in that structure that you present. MUSCOVITE How to make my example sentence look "less BE specific"?

— Mister Micawber

  • MUSCOVITE I understand the noun leg-pull is kind of uncommon to AmEng speakers?
  • Yes, in that structure that you present.
  • MUSCOVITE How to make my example sentence look "less BE specific"?
  • Oh dear...
  • I am really sick and tired of your pulling my leg.
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MUSCOVITEI understand the noun leg-pull is kind of uncommon to AmEng speakers?
Yes, in that structure that you present.
MUSCOVITEHow to make my example sentence look "less BE specific"?
Oh dear... I am really sick and tired of your pulling my leg.
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Mister Micawberof your pulling my leg.
I thought that
(1) stop pulling my leg was a 100% BrEng idiom, unlike
(2) stop kidding me (mostly AE according to my dictionary)

So the "boundary" between the two (i.e. the alleged BE-Am difference) is rather imaginary than real?

One more question if I may.

Which of the t
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MUSCOVITEI thought that(1) stop pulling my leg was a 100% BrEng idiom, unlike(2) stop kidding me (mostly AE according to my dictionary)
Nope. Both are common in AmE.
MUSCOVITEWhich of the two variants is grammatical?(1) I am really sick and tired of YOU kidding me(2) I am really sick and tired of YOUR kidding me
Both are in
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