pull one's forelock
English
Verb
- Alternative form of tug one's forelock
- 1913, Henry Lawson, "Triangles of Life" in Triangles of Life and Other Stories,
- And the common people pull their forelock harder and squirm lower the higher the rent a man pays per quarter for his house.
- 1913, Henry Lawson, "Triangles of Life" in Triangles of Life and Other Stories,
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