pull a trick(Mr Klokus asked if Dr Nolan was sure humans possessed “literal physical material to evaluate, to analyse”. “Yes, 100 per cent,” he said. “It’s there. I was working with a group about seven or eight years ago and I literally got within a few weeks of gaining access to one of the objects. And when the people who didn’t want us to gain access to it found out about it they pulled some bureaucratic administrative tricks and snatched it away.”com.auART Vancouver)
do; say(something ridiculous; funny, etc); say a mouthful(VLZ_58); get up to(Ты знаешь, что он вчера отмочил? Он выбросил телевизор в окно. You know what he got up to last night? He threw the TV out the window!; сделать что-либо странное, невероятное to do something odd, unexpected; something)