play possum

Significado (Inglés)

1. (idiomatic) To feign death; to remain quiet and still to escape attention or remain undetected; to lie low.
2. (idiomatic) To feign sleep, illness, etc.
3. (dated, idiomatic) To dissemble or to feign ignorance; to disguise or conceal something in order to deceive.

Conceptos

hacerse el muerto

Sinónimos

keep quiet

lie low

play dead

pretend to sleep

Traducciones

fazer-se de morto

fingir-se de morto

fingersi morto

sich tot stellen

faire le mort

sich schlafend stellen

hasta numarası yapmak

zich ziek houden

zich doodhouden

se fingir de morto

fingir dormir

Etimología (Inglés)

From play + possum (“from opposum”), from the behavior of the Virginia opossum, which feigns death when threatened. First use appears c. 1807.