Act like
Both terms in one sentence
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He said you call their bluff, take the gun and shoot it back at them, act like they don't have a gun et cetera.
Source: Series / Suits -
Bavarian Fire Drill: Cain says in The Emperor's Finest that the surest way to bluff your way through a conversation is to act like you already know what you're talking about and be just vague enough that the other person hears what he or she wants to hear.
Source: Literature / Ciaphas Cain -
A player with a strong hand or the nuts could try to look like he's pulling one con (bluffing) while really hoping people "call his bluff." If that player has read books of tells, for example, he could purposefully try to act like a player with "normal" tells to look like he's bluffing.
Source: Kansas City Shuffle
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