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What does “Tomar el pelo” mean?

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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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