pull someone over the coals in English

Forms: pulls someone over the coals [present, singular, third-person], pulling someone over the coals [participle, present], pulled someone over the coals [participle, past], pulled someone over the coals [past] [Show additional information ▼] [Hide additional information ▲]

Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} pull someone over the coals (third-person singular simple present pulls someone over the coals, present participle pulling someone over the coals, simple past and past participle pulled someone over the coals)

[Show JSON for post-processed kaikki.org data shown on this page ▼] [Hide JSON for post-processed kaikki.org data shown on this page ▲]

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "pulls someone over the coals",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pulling someone over the coals",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pulled someone over the coals",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pulled someone over the coals",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "pull someone over the coals (third-person singular simple present pulls someone over the coals, present participle pulling someone over the coals, simple past and past participle pulled someone over the coals)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Synonym of haul someone over the coals"
      ],
      "id": "en-pull_someone_over_the_coals-en-verb-q-PLdFlK",
      "links": [
        [
          "haul someone over the coals",
          "haul someone over the coals#English"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "tags": [
            "synonym",
            "synonym-of"
          ],
          "word": "haul someone over the coals"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "pull someone over the coals"
}

[Show JSON for raw wiktextract data ▼] [Hide JSON for raw wiktextract data ▲]

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "pulls someone over the coals",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pulling someone over the coals",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pulled someone over the coals",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "pulled someone over the coals",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "pull someone over the coals (third-person singular simple present pulls someone over the coals, present participle pulling someone over the coals, simple past and past participle pulled someone over the coals)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Synonym of haul someone over the coals"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "haul someone over the coals",
          "haul someone over the coals#English"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "tags": [
            "synonym",
            "synonym-of"
          ],
          "word": "haul someone over the coals"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "pull someone over the coals"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.

"pull someone over the coals" meaning in English

Verb