"yank someone's chain" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "yanks someone's chain",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "yanking someone's chain",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "yanked someone's chain",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "yanked someone's chain",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "yank someone's chain (third-person singular simple present yanks someone's chain, present participle yanking someone's chain, simple past and past participle yanked someone's chain)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "49 51",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2006, James A. McKenna, Beyond Bluffs: Master the Mysteries of Poker, page 198",
          "text": "So, be careful what you are paying attention to. If it looks like someone is yanking your chain, he or she probably is.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Tom Morrisey, In High Places, page 198",
          "text": "“For the same reason you were yanking my chain about the double ropes,” I said. “You want to see if I'm going to be any help to you or a total idiot when it comes to this retail thing.”",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Alison Fraser, His Mistress's Secret",
          "text": "It was so easy to yank his chain, Tiree smirked to herself, as she dialled Les's London flat.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To tease someone; to lead someone on; to goad someone into overreacting."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "tease",
          "tease"
        ],
        [
          "goad",
          "goad"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To tease someone; to lead someone on; to goad someone into overreacting."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "_dis1": "98 2",
          "sense": "goad someone into overreacting",
          "word": "poke"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "49 51",
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          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see yank, chain."
      ],
      "id": "en-yank_someone's_chain-en-verb-8TiMzzSM",
      "links": [
        [
          "yank",
          "yank#English"
        ],
        [
          "chain",
          "chain#English"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "_dis1": "5 95",
          "word": "jerk someone's chain"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "5 95",
          "word": "pull someone's chain"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
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      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/44/En-au-yank_someone%27s_chain.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "yank someone's chain"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "English verbs"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "yanks someone's chain",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "yanking someone's chain",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "yanked someone's chain",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "yanked someone's chain",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "yank someone's chain (third-person singular simple present yanks someone's chain, present participle yanking someone's chain, simple past and past participle yanked someone's chain)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English idioms",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2006, James A. McKenna, Beyond Bluffs: Master the Mysteries of Poker, page 198",
          "text": "So, be careful what you are paying attention to. If it looks like someone is yanking your chain, he or she probably is.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Tom Morrisey, In High Places, page 198",
          "text": "“For the same reason you were yanking my chain about the double ropes,” I said. “You want to see if I'm going to be any help to you or a total idiot when it comes to this retail thing.”",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Alison Fraser, His Mistress's Secret",
          "text": "It was so easy to yank his chain, Tiree smirked to herself, as she dialled Les's London flat.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To tease someone; to lead someone on; to goad someone into overreacting."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "tease",
          "tease"
        ],
        [
          "goad",
          "goad"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To tease someone; to lead someone on; to goad someone into overreacting."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see yank, chain."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "yank",
          "yank#English"
        ],
        [
          "chain",
          "chain#English"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/44/En-au-yank_someone%27s_chain.ogg/En-au-yank_someone%27s_chain.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/44/En-au-yank_someone%27s_chain.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "sense": "goad someone into overreacting",
      "word": "poke"
    },
    {
      "word": "jerk someone's chain"
    },
    {
      "word": "pull someone's chain"
    }
  ],
  "word": "yank someone's chain"
}