Pretend Phrases

Phrases

• A class act
• Act of God
• Act out
• Act the fool
• Act the giddy goat
• Act the part
• Act up
• Act white
• Act your age
• Air guitar
• Assume nothing
• Balancing act
• Caught in the act
• Class act
• Clean up your act
• Couldn't act his way out of a paper bag
• Do a disappearing act
• Don't play the innocent
• Double act
• Fake it till you make it
• Fake the funk
• Foot in the bucket (A baseball expression meaning to act timidly or cowardly)
• Get in on the act
• Get your act together
• Hard act to follow
• High wire act

• Human Rights Act
• In on the act
• Lie doggo
• Make believe
• Make up
• Phone it in (perform an act in an uncommitted disinterested manner)
• Play dead
• Play hardball (A baseball expression meaning to be or act tough or aggressive)
• Put on an act
• Random act of kindness
• Read the riot act
• Roll over and play dead
• Sexton Blake (Cockney rhyming slang for fake)
• Sister Act (Whoopie Goldberg movie)
• The Fake Sheikh (Nickname of journalist Mazher Mahmood)
• The Man in the Iron Mask
• The Old Pretender (Nickname of James Stuart)
• The Young Pretender (Nickname of Charles Edward Stuart)
• The act you've known for all these years (Beatles song lyric)
• The cat who doesn't act finicky soon loses control of his owner (9 Lives Cat Food advertising slogan)
• Think global, act local
• Think globally, act locally (Friends of the Earth advertising slogan)
• To assume makes an ass out of u and me
• Tongue in cheek
• Triple play (A baseball expression denoting the act of making three outs during the same play)
• Turn a blind eye
• Turn geese into swans