kid the pants off
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I think I really like it best when you can kid the pants off a girl when the opportunity arises, but it's a funny thing.
From Literature
Last week the Press of Chicago, as if sensitive about its reputation for glorifying crime, elected to "kid the pants off" a murder trial.
From Time Magazine Archive
We plan to kid the pants off this spaceman business, until those bright boys in the glass hats cry uncle.
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