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A list of phrases related to the word "fake"...
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A class
act
Act
of God
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Act
out
Act
the fool
Act
the giddy goat
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Act
the part
Act
up
Act
white
Act
your age
Artificial
respiration
Back the
wrong
horse
Balancing
act
Barking up the
wrong
tree
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Bear
false
witness
Bill And Ted's
Bogus
Journey ( Keanu Reeves movie )
Blow smoke up your ass
Born on the
wrong
side of the blanket
Born on the
wrong
side of the tracks
Caught in the
act
Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my
sham
friends! ( line from the movie 25th Hour )
Class
act
Clean up your
act
Couldn't
act
his way out of a paper bag
Crocodile tears
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Do a disappearing
act
Double
act
Fake it till you make it
Fake the funk
False
alarm
False
dawn
False
friends
False
jeopardy ( plot device in TV melodramas where danger is threatened only for it to be found to be a
false
alarm )
False
memory syndrome
False
modesty
False
pretences
False
prophet
Foot in the bucket ( A baseball expression meaning to
act
timidly or cowardly )
Forge
ahead
From the
wrong
side of the tracks
Funny money
Get hold of the
wrong
end of the stick
Get in on the
act
Get off on the
wrong
foot
Get out of the
wrong
side of the bed
Get your
act
together
Go down the
wrong
way
Go
wrong
Hard
act
to follow
High wire
act
How
wrong
can you be?
Human Rights
Act
If anything can go wrong, it will
If this is
wrong
I don't want to be right
In on the
act
In the
wrong
It went down the
wrong
way
It's all gone Pete Tong ( Cockney rhyming slang for gone
wrong
)
Jump to the
wrong
conclusion
Laugh on the
wrong
side of your face
Lulled into a
false
sense of security
My country right or
wrong
Not that there's anything
wrong
with that ( A catchphrase from Seinfeld )
On the
wrong
foot
On the
wrong
side of the tracks
Phone it in ( perform an
act
in an uncommitted disinterested manner )
Plastic fantastic
Play hardball ( A baseball expression meaning to be or
act
tough or aggressive )
Poodle faker
Put a foot
wrong
Put on an
act
Random
act
of kindness
Read the riot
act
Ring
false
Rub up the
wrong
way
Sailing under
false
colours
Sexton Blake ( Cockney rhyming slang for fake )
Sister
Act
( Whoopie Goldberg movie )
Smell the Glove ( fictional album by the
spoof
heavy-metal band Spinal Tap )
Sock puppet marketing
The Fake Sheikh ( Nickname of journalist Mazher Mahmood )
The
act
you've known for all these years ( Beatles song lyric )
The bull in the bowler hat ( jokey term for
artificial
insemination )
The cat who doesn't
act
finicky soon loses control of his owner ( 9 Lives Cat Food advertising slogan )
The right place at the
wrong
time
Think global,
act
local
Think globally,
act
locally ( Friends of the Earth advertising slogan )
Triple play ( A baseball expression denoting the
act
of making three outs during the same play )
Trophy wife
Voter
fraud
What's
wrong
with this picture?
Why don't you come up sometime and see me? ( She Done Him
Wrong
)
Woolly Bully ( Sam The
Sham
and The Pharaohs song )
Wrong
Way Corrigan ( Nickname of Douglas Corrigan )
Wrong
side of the blanket
Wrong
side of the tracks
Wrong, with a capital R