To turn away, refusing to listen.

Alternative form of tug one's forelock

plural of pull-off cap

(historical) A boy employed in a metalworks to raise the furnace door.

plural of pull-up boy

To stop allowing people to join or enter; to follow a policy of isolationism.

(idiomatic) Synonym of draw the long bow (“to exaggerate; to tell tall tales”)

(chemistry) A crystal growth technique based on continuous transport of the melted substance through one or more microchannels made in a crucible bottom.

(economics) Inflation arising when aggregate demand in an economy outpaces aggregate supply. It involves inflation rising as real gross domestic product rises and unemployment falls, as the economy moves along the Phillips curve.

Synonym of bring down the curtain (“bring something to an end”)