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| Tue Jul 22, 2008 12:50 pm They'll pull you up about it... |
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| I would agree with Jamie that it's not commonly heard. "Pull up" could mean 'blame' or 'reproach' but it sounds more comfortable with the meaning 'stop (a car, originally a horse)'. |
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| Tue Jul 22, 2008 12:51 pm They'll pull you up about it... |
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My source tells me it means to scold a person. Is this correct?
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| Haihao wrote: | | I would agree with Jamie that it's not commonly heard. "Pull up" could mean 'blame' or 'reproach' but it sounds more comfortable with the meaning 'stop (a car, originally a horse)'. |
Okay, got it. Thanks!
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| Tue Jul 22, 2008 13:52 pm They'll pull you up about it... |
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Hi Cantik
I doubt that an American would understand 'pull one up' to mean 'scold', 'blame' or 'reproach', and I doubt they'd guess that meaning even in the context of your sentence.
Out of curiosity, which version of English does your local source speak and did your source find this to be a common usage for 'pull one up' (in their version of English)?
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| Tue Jul 22, 2008 14:39 pm They'll pull you up about it... |
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Hi Amy,
Thanks for your concern.
I was studying this book; A passage to English. I came across the idiom under the chapter of idioms that starts with the verb "pull", unfortunately it didn't say which version of English it was, eventhough the book speaks a lot about the differences between AmE and BrE.
Incidentally, one of the editors of the book is Dr. Peter Rawlings of the University of the West of England, who did American studies.
So, perhaps it belongs to the Brits. 
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| Tue Jul 22, 2008 14:41 pm They'll pull you up about it... |
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| Tue Jul 22, 2008 15:01 pm They'll pull you up about it... |
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| Quote: | | Out of curiosity, which version of English does your local source speak and did your source find this to be a common usage for 'pull one up' (in their version of English)? |
I don't know whether it's common in BrE or AmE, but it's very common in Indian english, especially in newspapers. You would usually find the headlines like the ones below.
Officials pulled up for slow pace.
The Supreme Court has pulled up commercial banks for resorting to muscle power, using goondas to recover loans from defaulters.
And I guess the British used to use it in the past, because Indian newspapers generally follow whatever english the British gave us.
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| Tue Jul 22, 2008 15:11 pm They'll pull you up about it... |
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| Jamie (K) wrote: | | siCantikManis wrote: | | Quote: | | The English tend to be great "nibblers", eating lots between meals (chocolate,biscuits, and the like), and this is one of the reasons why they are frequently overweight. |
I was rolling on the floor.  I cannot believe it, are people allowed to write that? And do you think I should believe this? |
Believe it -- about both the English and the Americans, but more so with the Americans. (The new trend in England is for fat people to blame America for their obesity.)
Why do you think people shouldn't be able to write that? In the US and the UK, you can write anything you want. |
Well, it seems impolite, or maybe it is just my Asian trait. Plus, they didn't back it up with any data/proof.
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| Tue Jul 22, 2008 15:14 pm They'll pull you up about it... |
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| daemon99 wrote: | Officials pulled up for slow pace.
The Supreme Court has pulled up commercial banks for resorting to muscle power, using goondas to recover loans from defaulters.
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Great examples, daemon99. Thanks for joining in!
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| Tue Jul 22, 2008 15:16 pm They'll pull you up about it... |
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| Now all he has to do is tell us what "goondas" are! I assume it's nothing like a "boxwallah". |
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| Tue Jul 22, 2008 15:25 pm They'll pull you up about it... |
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I think goondas share the same meaning as goons, thugs hired to do gangster-ish stuffs like recovering loan.
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