生拉活扯

to wildly exaggerate the meaning of sth (idiom)

to live / alive / living / work / workmanship

to pull / to play (a bowed instrument) / to drag / to draw / to chat / (coll.) to empty one's bowels

to be born / to give birth / life / to grow / raw / uncooked / student

to pull / to tear / (of cloth, thread etc) to buy / to chat / to gossip / (coll.) (Tw) ridiculous / hokey

variant of 扯[che3] / to pull / to tear

(northern dialect) to pick up a fare (as a taxi driver) / to pick up a piece of work (as a courier)