When you are at the grocery store, specifically the pasta aisle, and you attempt to trust a fart, but you inadvertently dedicate down your leg, creating a puddle of liquid excrement that some underpaid janitor has to then deal with.
Dang it, I accidentally pulled an aisle 4 at Kroger today and now need new jeans.
To turn your classroom of students against each other via shared classroom quizzes on the book 1984.
I really hate my ELA teacher he kept Pulling a 1984
To take an amazingly artistic picture of an ordinary scenery.
Jorge: Look at this awesome picture I took of that building.
Pedro: It's not bad, but you didn't pull a pelican.
to walk a ridiculous distance because you cant get a ride, or for no reason what so ever.
"Wanna come over?"
"No I cant get a ride..."
"It doesn't matter just pull an Elijah!"
if you take a shit at your friends house
*at friends house*
me- i need to go to the bathroom
20 minutes later...
friend- why did you took so long?
me- i had to take a shit
friend- ahahhaha you pulled a francis!
A reference to Sherlock Holmes, the main character in a series of mysteries by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The detective often solved cases by noting miniscule evidence. The phrase is often used sarcastically when someone points out the obvious. However, it can also be used seriously when someone solves a mystery.
"Dude, The sky is blue today!"
"Way to pull a Sherlock, man!"
"So i figured out where all my towels were going. I found three in Ashleys' dryer. Apparently she has the same ones."
"Way to pull a Sherlock."
In Film and TV Shows, to add text on frame instead of filming the phone's screen.
"Are we gonna get an insert on the phone?"
"No, we are going to pull a Sherlock"