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pull round
Idioms and Phrases
Restore or be restored to good health, as in It was good nursing that pulled him round so quickly , or Once on antibiotics, he pulled round quickly . [Late 1800s]Example Sentences
There was no sound of their coming yet, but the pull round Derrible Pointe would account for that.
Probably he had sunk all his savings in them, and thought they would pull round with the aid of additional capital.
We pull round, but find that there is so heavy a surf running that we cannot land on the outside.
Presently a boat put off and began to pull round the promontory.
It meant: Get into your boats as fast as you know how and pull round the Fleet.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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