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pull someone's plumes (third-person singular simple present pulls someone's plumes, present participle pulling someone's plumes, simple past and past participle pulled someone's plumes)
- (idiomatic, obsolete) To humble, to puncture the pride of
c. 1587–1588, , Tamburlaine the Great. The First Part , 2nd edition, part 1, London: Richard Iones, , published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene i:that Tamburlaine:
That like a Foxe in midſt of harueſt time,
Dooth pray vppon my flockes of Passengers:
And as I heare, doth meane to pull my plumes
1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, , page 108, column 2:Let frantike Talbot triumph for a while,
And like a Peacock ſweepe along his tayle,
Wee’le pull his Plumes, and take away his Trayne,
If Dolphin and the reſt will be but rul’d.
1647, John Fletcher, A Wife for a Month, act V, scene i:How I ſhall pull your Plumes, Lords,
How I ſhall humble you within theſe two Days?