She lay naked on her side watching him pull his socks off without sitting down, hopping from one foot to the other.
Competitors will either "pull up their socks or fade into the sunset."
It also doesn't mean that people should be able simply to pull their socks up and get better, or that it's under conscious control.
There's general pressure to pull one's socks up these days, but I don't think that affects what we purchase.
It was time to pull my moral socks up and behave myself.
However standards have now slipped and I doubt there is anything that will make them pull their socks up.
How far do you tell Bernard to pull his socks up, an inch, three inches, a foot?
'You want to pull your socks up,' she said relentlessly.
Maybe we needed to pull our socks up and we are trying to do just that.
We should pull our own socks up too, therefore, and improve the way we deal with this subject.