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词组 play possum
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play possum

1 pretend to be asleep or unconscious when threatened.

2 feign ignorance.

☞ This expression, recorded from the early 19th century in the USA, refers to the opossum's habit of feigning death when threatened or attacked (possum is an informal US term for an opossum).

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