put up a bluff
Example Sentences
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Of course she may know something, but I fancy it's what you say; that Merriman is getting her to put up a bluff.
From The Pit Prop Syndicate by Freeman Wills Crofts
As soon as the crowd thinned out, he asked him if he had that locket, and at first Burt put up a bluff.
From Polly of the Hospital Staff by Emma C. Dowd
Under that stare he got as white as a sheet, but he tried to put up a bluff.
From The Girl at Central by Geraldine Bonner
Them guys ain't good fur nuthin but to wear tin stars and put up a bluff.
From Bert Wilson in the Rockies by J. W. Duffield
Things and people had made her put up a bluff of being hardened, but there had come, as you know, the newly awakened desire to ‘live straight—like folks who didn’t get 273 caught.’
From Penny of Top Hill Trail by Philip Lyford
