Spanish idioms
What does “Tomar el pelo” mean?
Tomar el pelo
Word for word
To take the hair
What it really means
To wind someone up, to make up a story purely for fun. It is teasing, not fraud: for genuine deception you say «engañar» or «timar».
How we say it in English
To pull someone's leg
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