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pull someone's leg

• deceive someone playfully; tease someone.
• "getting married—are you pulling my leg?"
Similar: tease, rag, make fun of, chaff, trick, joke with, play a joke on, play a trick on, play a practical joke on, taunt, jest, hoax, fool, deceive, misguide, lead on, hoodwink, dupe, beguile, gull, kid, have on, rib, wind up, take for a ride, lead up the garden path, take the mickey out of, make a monkey out of, put on, twit, bamboozle, get/take a rise out of,


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