play possum

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To feign death; to remain quiet and still to escape attention or remain undetected; to lie low.

   “Thinking fast, we played possum, hoping the bear wouldn't bother us.”

2. fiil To feign sleep, illness, etc.

   “When we used to get home late at night, I would play possum so my daddy would carry me inside and put me in bed.”

3. fiil To dissemble or to feign ignorance; to disguise or conceal something in order to deceive.

   “Though, as it afterwards turned out, the Yankee had money enough about him, and was merely playing the ’possum all the while.”