pull a fast one
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.64 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "This isn't worth anything like what you paid them. I think they pulled a fast one on you."
- "I haven't forgotten the way you tried to pull a fast one over me when you first came here—over the Jaintiapur plantation that I had wanted for some time."
- "President Bush today made his most aggressive assault yet on Gov. Bill Clinton, asserting that the Democratic nominee would "pull a fast one on the American people" and raise taxes by hundreds of billions of dollars."
- "The man known as Chainsaw Al pulled a fast one last week, buying three companies when everyone assumed he would be selling his own."
- "7. Claimants are pulling a fast one. No. Less than 1% of the welfare budget is lost to fraud."
- "But then came Jan. 6, when I watched my Ivy League-educated senator, Ted Cruz, try to pull yet another fast one on the American people as he fought — not long before the certification process was disrupted by a mob of Trump supporters storming the Capitol and forcing their way into the Senate chamber — to challenge the election results."