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A list of phrases related to the word "pretend"...
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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
Air guitar
Assume
nothing
Balancing
act
Caught in the
act
Class
act
Clean up your
act
Couldn't
act
his way out of a paper bag
Do a disappearing
act
Don't play the innocent
Double
act
Fake
it till you make it
Fake
the funk
Foot in the bucket ( A baseball expression meaning to
act
timidly or cowardly )
Get in on the
act
Get your
act
together
Hard
act
to follow
High wire
act
Human Rights
Act
In on the
act
Lie doggo
Make believe
Make up
Phone it in ( perform an
act
in an uncommitted disinterested manner )
Play dead
Play hardball ( A baseball expression meaning to be or
act
tough or aggressive )
Put on an
act
Random
act
of kindness
Read the riot
act
Roll over and play dead
Sexton Blake ( Cockney rhyming slang for
fake
)
Sister
Act
( Whoopie Goldberg movie )
The
Fake
Sheikh ( Nickname of journalist Mazher Mahmood )
The Man in the Iron
Mask
The Old
Pretender
( Nickname of James Stuart )
The Young
Pretender
( Nickname of Charles Edward Stuart )
The
act
you've known for all these years ( Beatles song lyric )
The cat who doesn't
act
finicky soon loses control of his owner ( 9 Lives Cat Food advertising slogan )
Think global,
act
local
Think globally,
act
locally ( Friends of the Earth advertising slogan )
To
assume
makes an ass out of u and me
Tongue in cheek
Triple play ( A baseball expression denoting the
act
of making three outs during the same play )
Turn a blind eye
Turn geese into swans