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Pull along   /pʊl əlˈɔŋ/   Listen
Pull along

verb
1.
Pull along heavily, like a heavy load against a resistance.  Synonyms: schlep, shlep.  "She pulled along a large trunk"






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"Pull along" Quotes from Famous Books



... hard on me, I know, but life is dear to all of us, and the life insurance company that I am contributing to has notified me that if I don't quit having you around they will cancel my policy. Now, you may say farewell, and get out of here forever, and I will try and pull along with the cat, and such boys as come in here to be sociable. Go on now," and the old groceryman threw the eggs out in the alley, and washed his ...
— Peck's Bad Boy With the Cowboys • Hon. Geo. W. Peck

... I deserve a thrashing—if there were anybody who had a right to give it me—for bringing you into the necessity of living in a poorer way than you have been used to. But we married because we loved each other, I suppose. And that may help us to pull along till things get better. Come, dear, put down that work and come ...
— Middlemarch • George Eliot

... that the chain will be wound up and let down behind, while it cannot slip along the river's bottom—the enormous friction is enough to prevent that, and therefore the boat is wound up and goes through the water. The power of this chain-boat is so great that it will pull along, and that too against the rapid stream, a whole string of barges, several of them of 300 tons' burthen. The long fleet advances steadily though slowly, and the irresistible engine works with smokeless funnels, but there ...
— The Voyage Alone in the Yawl "Rob Roy" • John MacGregor



Words linked to "Pull along" :   tow, schlep, drag



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