pull one's forelock

verb

pull one's forelock

verb

1

Synonym of tug one's forelock.

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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