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{
"form": "pulls my finger",
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},
{
"form": "pulling my finger",
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{
"form": "pulled my finger",
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"text": "Bob: \"Oh, how do you play this game?\""
},
{
"text": "Charlie: \"Well, Bob, just pull my finger.\""
},
{
"ref": "2006, Marsha Collier, Santa Shops on EBay, page 89",
"text": "Could there be a more romantic gift than a remote-controlled fart machine or a pull-my-finger pen?",
"type": "quotation"
}
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"A phrase used when playing a prank regarding flatulence, in which someone is asked to pull the finger of the person playing the prank, who simultaneously flatulates so as to suggest a causal relationship between the pulling of the finger and the ensuing expulsion of gas."
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"related": [
{
"word": "pull the other one, it's got bells on"
},
{
"word": "pull my finger out"
}
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"word": "pull my finger"
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"text": "Bob: \"Oh, how do you play this game?\""
},
{
"text": "Charlie: \"Well, Bob, just pull my finger.\""
},
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"ref": "2006, Marsha Collier, Santa Shops on EBay, page 89",
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