Pulling in the pope

Pausing mid-stride and using muscle power to retract a stool further into one's rectum.

"Why'd you stop?
Just pulling in the pope."

by The President of Icecream July 4, 2011

Pulling down the blinds

Being rude or dissing someone or something.

Has the same meaning as "Throwing Shade"

She was pulling down the blinds yesterday

by You Know Im Always Right April 28, 2016

Pulling Up the Ladder

A social phenomenon in which individuals or groups who have successfully advanced in status, wealth, or opportunity then act to block others from accessing the same path upward.

Key Features:

Motivated by fear of competition, scarcity mindset, or desire to protect hard-won status.

Can manifest in politics (e.g., immigrants opposing immigration), economics (e.g., professionals gatekeeping their fields), or class mobility (e.g., elites dismantling welfare or education programs they once benefited from).

Example (fictional): Raymond Leon in the movie "In Time" rises out of poverty to become a Timekeeper but enforces the very system that traps others where he once was.
Example (real): An immigrant who gained citizenship but campaigns to restrict immigration for others.

1. After becoming wealthy through public education, the politician now opposes funding for schools, effectively pulling up the ladder behind him.

2. Some immigrants, once they gain citizenship, support restrictive immigration policies — a classic case of pulling up the ladder.

by Social Climber September 16, 2025

pulling through in the clutch

- to perform when most needed, to come back from losing to win because of one persons surprise excellence.

All of a sudden they threw the football to the 10 year old and he ran all the way to the endzone, kid pulled through in the clutch.

by shady guju September 17, 2005

Pulling a Where the Wild Things Are

Going on an incredible night-time journey and beginning the morning far from where you began your night. You may or may not remember how you got where you are.

Did you hear Frank woke up in Vancouver this morning? Definitely a classic example of pulling a where the wild things are.

Haha yeah, he said he still doesn't know how he ended up there.

by nightravel November 17, 2009

pulling tricks at the truck stop

a) ( used as a phrase or as a noun): what a teen girl from the Southern US might tell you in a chat room if she isnt proud of her minimum wage job or has a second job, i.e an illegal job that is, if you know what I mean.

b) for an adult female in the southern US (minus Texas and Florida) to actually work a second job as a prostitute at a truck stop in order to supplement her income from her minimum wage job.

Whereas pulling tricks at the truck stop, definition a) may act ually be a coded message by a teen girl to tell you that she does indeed have a second job, i, e selling drugs, pulling tricks at the truck stop, definition b), when said by an adult female, may not be as offensive as you might think; an adult woman with a minimum wage job who doesn't feel that she is making enough, should have the right to decide whether or not she will prostitute herself or not, as long as she doesn't do drugs or excessive alcohol on top of her minimum wage job and 'legal prostitution'

by Sexydimma December 29, 2016

pulling out all the stops

Something someone does sometimes to delay doing the right thing for as long as he can, for whatever reason.

My friend is pulling out all the stops, as long as he doesn't have to do the right thing, really the only thing, which is to call me, his old friend, and stop playing this game with me.

by Ereck Flowers November 24, 2018