play possum

Example Sentences

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If the 49ers reach for Mac Jones, any chance Kittle might play possum?

From Washington Post • Apr. 28, 2021

“Alternative viewpoints”? It’s exasperating to watch a smart woman play possum like this — not just in the interviews but in the writing, especially when her conclusions don’t tell us anything we didn’t know before.

From New York Times • Jan. 23, 2020

The Huskies just love to play possum, it seems.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 28, 2012

Or the nascent "pro-virus" molecules of new nucleic acid may play possum in this way.

From Time Magazine Archive

Finding this game did not work, he soon began to "play possum" again.

From Bird Stories from Burroughs Sketches of Bird Life Taken from the Works of John Burroughs by Fuertes, Louis Agassiz