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 #2 (permalink) Sat May 28, 2005 10:26 am Meaning of 'pull a fast one' |
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This is trick someone - he only had 4 tickets but he should have had 5 because there were five people.
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Alan
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| #3 (permalink) Sat Jun 11, 2005 10:06 am Meaning of 'pull a fast one' |
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| Alan wrote: |
| This is trick someone - he only had 4 tickets but he should have had 5 because there were five people. |
could you please elaborate the meaning of this sentence,how can one pull a ticket? :o |
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| #4 (permalink) Tue Jun 14, 2005 18:41 pm Meaning of 'to pull a fast one' |
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As Alan explained to pull a fast one is an idiom which means to trick somebody.
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| #5 (permalink) Sun Aug 07, 2005 5:14 am Meaning of 'to pull a fast one' |
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| Torsten wrote: |
| As Alan explained to pull a fast one is an idiom which means to trick somebody. |
hi ,Torsten
There are many english idoms which I definitely cant understand literally ,such as" to pull a fast one".
Maybe lack of knowledge about culture and custom of english spoken country prevent me ,a chinese,from improving my english .
I am puzzled.
Can you give me some advices? :( |
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