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A class
act
Act
of God
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Act
out
Act
the fool
Act
the giddy goat
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Act
the part
Act
up
Act
white
Act
your age
All is
vanity
Assume
nothing
Balancing
act
Bear
false
witness
Bill And Ted's
Bogus
Journey ( Keanu Reeves movie )
Caught in the
act
Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends! ( line from the movie 25th Hour )
Class
act
Clean up your
act
Con
artist
Couldn't
act
his way out of a paper bag
Do a disappearing
act
Double
act
Fake
it till you make it
Fake
the funk
False
alarm
False
dawn
False
friends
False
jeopardy ( plot device in TV melodramas where danger is threatened only for it to be found to be a
false
alarm )
False
memory syndrome
False
modesty
False
pretences
False
prophet
Foot in the bucket ( A baseball expression meaning to
act
timidly or cowardly )
Funny money
Get in on the
act
Get your
act
together
Hard
act
to follow
High wire
act
Human Rights
Act
In on the
act
Lulled into a
false
sense of security
Phone it in ( perform an
act
in an uncommitted disinterested manner )
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
Ring
false
Sailing under
false
colours
Sexton Blake ( Cockney rhyming slang for
fake
)
Sister
Act
( Whoopie Goldberg movie )
Smell the Glove ( fictional album by the
spoof
heavy-metal band Spinal Tap )
The
Fake
Sheikh ( Nickname of journalist Mazher Mahmood )
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
Triple play ( A baseball expression denoting the
act
of making three outs during the same play )
Two faced
Two-faced
Vanity
Fair ( William Makepeace Thackeray book )
Vanity
publishing
Vanity
thy name is woman
Woolly Bully ( Sam The Sham and The Pharaohs song )
You Can't
Con
An Honest John ( Mike Skinner - The Streets song )