Gratis ordbok - engelska svenska tyska lexikon

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• Thinking fast, we played possum hoping the bear wouldn't bother us.
• The soldier played possum, fooling the sniper.
• To keep the focus away from his client, the lawyer basically played possum during the entire complex trial, and his tactic paid off with an acquittal.
• 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.
• Though, as it afterwards turned out, the Yankee had money enough about him, and was merely playing the ’possum all the while.
• Never imposing upon any one myself, I suffered no one to play the possum with me.
• You have been holding-in all this while — possumus omnes, we all play the ’possum...
• As none came with the coach from Deadwood, I suppose the amount of funds was insignificant. You can't tell, though, for the stage company is liable to play possum sometimes.
• The opossum, colloquially known as a possum, is about the size of a domestic cat. Such animals are known to feign death when threatened, giving rise to the phrase "playing possum".