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pull someone aside

phrase/pʊl ˈsʌmwʌn əˈsaɪd/

A2CEFR level
20/100Rarity: fairly common
TechnicalRegister

To take a person to one side privately for a quiet, often corrective, word.

Praise in public, but pull someone aside if you need to correct them.

Similar: have a quiet word

Topic: Leadership & management in Business English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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