bluffing

More people could die from bluff collapses if nothing is done.

That same year, another bluff collapse in Del Mar destabilized a set of train tracks regularly carrying passengers between Los Angeles and San Diego.

Nor would the dangers end there even if Obama were not bluffing; Putin might think he was bluffing anyway and start a war.

As menacing as those automatic rifles were, I felt the Somalis were bluffing.

Even a bluffing superpower can be forced to ante up ... or perhaps fold as casualties mount and treasury accounts go bust.

It may sound absurd at first flush, but politics and poker have a lot more than just bluffing in common.

Jonathan Chait thinks Speaker Boehner is bluffing on allowing the sequestration to take place.

They got somebody, or else they were only bluffing when they waved that scalp.

Mike grinned, remembering the time he had driven a robot brain daffy by bluffing it at poker.

He uttered a low laugh of contempt which showed plainer than words that he thought Curlie was bluffing.

Mrs. Spencer might be, probably was, bluffing but he did not propose to be the one to call it; the result was quite too uncertain.

She began to laugh at my bluffing words, and ended with a nervous sob.