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act
noun
the disguise and staged personality assumed by an expert card counter playing blackjack in a casino in the hope of avoiding detection and ejection US- — Michael Dalton, Blackjack, p. 25, 1991
▶ get in on the act; be in on the act
to become, or be, involved in another’s activity US, 1947- But if it takes off, expect the operators to get in on the act quickly[.] — The Guardian, 5 June 2003
▶ get into the act
to take part US
If not coined by, popularised as part of the catchphrase “everybody wants to get into the act” by comedian Jimmy Durante on the radio in the 1940s.- Lincoln was such a success that everybody wanted to get into the act. — Time, p. 66, 4 March 1946
- School Superintendent Robert F. Savitt said, “It’s not possible to say how many just wanted to get into the act.” — San Francisco News, p. 1, 17 January 1953
- I should have known that you can’t escape the frantic desire now possessed by seemingly everyone to, as it were, “get into the act.” — San Francisco New Call-Bulletin, p. 14, 5 September 1961
▶ get your act together; get it together
to take control of your personal condition; to get your mind and emotions under control; to become organised US, 1973
A variation of “pull yourself together”.- [M]an, we were both sort of really spaced out [drug-intoxicated] [...] but I got it together to clean up the sick. — Paul E Willis, Profane Culture, p. 142, 1978
- — Gretchen Cryer, I’m Getting My Act Together And Taking It On The Road, 1978
▶ hard act to follow; tough act to follow
something or someone who cannot be easily outdone US- With his own yacht and his own island and his own particular brand of charm, Ari is a hard act to follow. — San Francisco Examiner, p. 16, 14 December 1963
- When Lombardi left, Bengtson was chosen. What an act to follow. — San Francisco Chronicle, p. 50, 28 August 1970
▶ put on an act
to give an exaggerated performance; to indulge in histrionics AUSTRALIA- “Listen, mate,” he said, “I’m just hopin’ ya’ll put on an act, that’s all. Just put on an act.” — Lawson Glassop, We Were the Rats, p. 176, 1944
- Don’t tell me I was mean, you were putting on a bigger act that mine! — Willie Fennell, Dexter Gets The Point, p. 98, 1961
- They’d all been through her – no worries – but the only reason she’d stacked on an act was because the young idiots had left her out in the bush for a joke because they knew her husband was due home from night shift. — David Williamson, The Removalists, p. 36, 1972
- I decided to rough him up a bit. I put on the real fierce act and rushed at him. — Sam Weller, Old Bastards I Have Met, p. 106, 1979
- I put on a big act and I told the bloke who answered the phone I was gonna complain to the minister. — Frank Hardy, Hardy’s People, p. 41, 1986
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