pull wires
see pull strings.
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How to use pull wires in a sentence
He began at once to pull wires to land a berth in some other club.
Baseball Joe on the Giants | Lester ChadwickThe pegs, as they turn, raise levers which pull wires in connection with the hammers which strike on the bells.
Church Bells | H. B. WaltersTherein did the thousand lobbyists, who yearly came to roll logs, pull wires and juggle through bills, find their congenial prey.
Four Years in Rebel Capitals | T. C. DeLeonHe may lay pipes and pull wires, seeming for a little to succeed.
The Call of the Twentieth Century | David Starr Jordan
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