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bluff someone into something/doing something
collocation
(also bluff sb into sth)
to make someone do something by deceiving them so that they think either that you are going to do something when you really have no intention of doing it, or that you have knowledge that you do not really have, or that you are someone else:
She bluffed the doorman into thinking that she was a reporter她装模作样让门卫以为她是记者。
They are not trying to bluff you into a guilty plea.
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bluff
She somehow bluffed the embassy into giving her a visa.
Those people got bluffed into paying £800 that they didn't have to.
Law enforcement officers are trained to bluff you into making denials or statements.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Faking & pretending
affect
air guitar
assume
believe
changeling
charlatan
cry
false
false modesty
falsifiable
falsify
feign
pass something off as something
phoney
phony-baloney
play-act
play-acting
professed
purport
quack
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