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play possum

verb as in pretend to be dead

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Why not, he asked himself, "play possum" with the man and the dog, and pretend to be badly hurt and unconscious?

To play possum when one hears the footfall of Fate on the stairs.

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

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