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单词 to pull the strings
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to pull the strings
i. A cord for actuating a puppet. Also figurative, esp. in to pull the strings, to control the course of affairs, to be the concealed operator in what is ostensibly done by another; to pull strings, to exert influence privately. Cf. string-pulling n. at Compounds 2 below.
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society > authority > power > influence > have influence [verb (intransitive)] > exert influence > behind the scenes
to pull (also move) the wires1813
to pull (also work) the ropes1841
to pull the strings1860
to pull strings1924
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > puppetry > [noun] > puppet > strings or wires of
wire1656
string1860
1860–70 W. Stubbs Lect. European Hist. (1904) i. i. 11 A king who pulled the strings of government so exclusively himself.
1868 Parl. Deb. 3rd Ser. 191 650 Persons..who pull the strings of the Catholic world in the city of Rome.
c1880 Our Own Country II. 257 Some men..who pulled the strings that influenced the mob.
1888 J. Bryce Amer. Commonw. II. lx. 421 The same men continuing to serve year after year, because they hold the strings in their hands.
1924 M. Kennedy Constant Nymph iii. xvi. 213 With half a dozen strings within her reach, she had not made up her mind which to pull.
1938 M. Allingham Fashion in Shrouds xxii. 404 I've been trying to pull a few strings myself..but there's an ominous frigidity on all sides.
1955 G. Greene Loser takes All i. v. 26 Rice is still short, but I'm certain Aunt Marion can pull strings with the grocer.
1960 News Chron. 30 Jan. 3/8 She admits she will pull any strings to get things done.
1979 R. Jaffe Class Reunion (1980) ii. viii. 265 He couldn't be dumb or they wouldn't have accepted him at Le Rosay. On the other hand, his father had strings to pull everywhere.
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