put on an act 的定义
- Pretend, especially in order to deceive; also, show off. For example, We were afraid Charlie had hurt himself, but he was just putting on an act, or We know you're a good swimmer—stop putting on an act. [c. 1930]
put on an act 近义词
act a part
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- To put it rather uncharitably, the USPHS practiced a major dental experiment on a city full of unconsenting subjects.
- Just the hard-on before you shoot unarmed members of the public.
- Kennedy: "Mankind must put an end to war — or war will put an end to mankind."
- Obsessive exercising and inadequate nutrition can, over time, put people at high risk for overuse injuries like stress fractures.
- A spokesman for Lewisham council said last year that it would be forced to act if the family returned to Britain.
- He was voluble in his declarations that they would “put the screws” to Ollie on the charge of perjury.
- Each day she resolved, "To-morrow I will tell Felipe;" and when to-morrow came, she put it off again.
- This is the place where the Muscovite criminals are banished to, if they are not put to death.
- Let them open their minds to us, let them put upon permanent record the significance of all their intrigues and manœuvres.
- Before the spinet a bench was placed about four feet below the keys, and I was put upon the bench.