Pull back
Pull back verb - Pull back or move away or backward.
Both terms in one sentence
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The others make Maverick climb up on top to stop the horses, which, since the reins are dragging on the ground, he has to do by jumping onto the team's lead pair and pull back on them.
Source: Dead Foot Leadfoot -
And, when you pull back his hair... Aesop Amnesia: Brief points that out that Panty and Stocking have already had a "petty fighting gets you nowhere" plot, but that doesn't stop them from going into another all out war on each other.
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