let on like
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Why, they just don’t let on, like she was a regular person.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
I let on like I hadn’t seen this because I knew what it was.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
Seemed nobody had told Pastor Howard either, as he didn’t let on like he thought it was funny.
From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool
Dock never laffed nor let on like he wuz jokin', but jest the same this sort uv thing tickled him nearly to de'th.
From A Little Book of Profitable Tales by Eugene Field
"Otherwise, after taking those precautions to keep us in the dark, he would not have let on like that."
From When the World Shook; being an account of the great adventure of Bastin, Bickley and Arbuthnot by Henry Rider Haggard
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