put up a bluff
Example Sentences
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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
"No, I don't know a thing about it, I'll have to put up a bluff!"
From The Merriweather Girls in Quest of Treasure by Edholm, Lizette M.
And you inconsequently decided to put up a bluff of this kind on the British nation because Esmond might involve in difficulties a girl with whom you are not in love.
From Delilah of the Snows by Bindloss, Harold
I don't reckon anybody kin tell the distance o' the stars; they only put up a bluff on that.
From Radio Boys Cronies Or, Bill Brown's Radio by Whipple, Wayne
Having at that time nothing to support his pretensions he decided to put up a bluff.
From Poor White by Anderson, Sherwood