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 Crofts, Freeman Wills
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 Dowd, Emma C.
You should have got a smarter man before you ventured to put up a bluff on me.
From By Right of Purchase by Bindloss, Harold
Them guys ain't good fur nuthin but to wear tin stars and put up a bluff.
From Bert Wilson in the Rockies by Duffield, J. W.
"But before people I've put up a bluff of despising it."
From Questionable Shapes by Howells, William Dean
