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pull the reins in on someone en · VERB

Meanings

  1. To restrict, curtail, curb.
    • Later on you will still have to pull the reins in on yourself, from time to time. 2006, Albert Rayl, B to B CANDLE MAKING - Beginners to Business, page 12:
    • Now, given Milligan's deliberately annoying escapades, Caul was perfectly willing and able to pull the reins in on Billy (and Milligan freely agrees with this), but he was never given the chance. 1996, Larry Michelson, William J. Ray, Handbook of Dissociation: Theoretical, Empirical, and Clinical Perspectives, page 605:
    • 1966, Mike Nesmith, Different Drum, 1967, Linda Ronstadt (vocalist), The Stone Poneys, Different Drum (single), Yes and I ain't sayin' you ain't pretty, / All I'm sayin's I'm not ready / For any person, place or thing / To try and pull the reins in on me.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
pulls the reins in on someone Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
pulled the reins in on someone Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
pulled the reins in on someone Tense=Past lexicographic
pulling the reins in on someone Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic

Relateds

pull the reins in on something