put up a bluff

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.

You should have got a smarter man before you ventured to put up a bluff on me.

"Probably wants to put up a bluff as if he don't care," was the clever suggestion of the Baby.

We should have to dodge the beastly German system which makes every workman carry his record card about with him; but if we couldn't get things of the sort, we must put up a bluff—have lost them or something—and trust to my skill with the tools to see us through.

Under that stare he got as white as a sheet, but he tried to put up a bluff.