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pull the football

verb

Etymology

From a running gag in the American comic strip Peanuts by Charles Schulz. Typically, Lucy Van Pelt holds a football for Charlie Brown to kick, only to pull it away and cause him to fall over. The gag first appeared in the November 14, 1951 comic.

Definitions

  1. To appear to make someone a promising offer, only to withdraw it to the detriment of the…

    To appear to make someone a promising offer, only to withdraw it to the detriment of the other party.

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    • Instead, they took the deportation and pulled the football away on doing anything to keep immigrants in this nation.
    • But in several instances, in several places, I think we kind of pulled the football away, to use an analogy, from groups such as Southeast Asians in Queens

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