pull one's forelock

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pull one's forelock (third-person singular simple present pulls one's forelock, present participle pulling one's forelock, simple past and past participle pulled one's forelock)

  1. Alternative form of tug one's forelock
    • 1913, Henry Lawson, “Triangles of Life”, in Triangles of Life and Other Stories‎[1]:
      And the common people pull their forelock harder and squirm lower the higher the rent a man pays per quarter for his house.
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