Pose as
Pose as verb - To pretend to be (what one is not) in appearance or behavior.
Try
Try verb - To subject (a personal quality or faculty) to often excessive stress.
Both terms in one sentence
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Suicide as Comedy: Tortillas for the Daltons has the Daltons try to pose as mariachis and taught to sing by one of the Mexican bandits.
Source: Comic Book / Lucky Luke -
Doctor Who has a group of clockwork robots who try to pose as eighteenth-century French humans by wearing creepy white masks.
Source: Malevolent Masked Men -
Dressing as the Enemy: A variation when Danny and Sedgwick try to pose as Russian prisoners when this special, secluded group is being taken outside to cut trees.
Source: Film / The Great Escape
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