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  • Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Idioms 250. All right. The idiom today is play dumb

  • or play stupid. We use both of these. Okay. Well you can also use it with act.

  • Somebody could act dumb or act stupid too. So let's take a look at the note

  • here. So if someone plays or acts dumb or stupid, he or she pretends that they

  • don't have knowledge about something or how to do something.

  • Basically, it means to act ignorant. Act like you just don't know, you never

  • learned on purpose. Often because someone doesn't want to do something or as a way

  • of getting out of doing something. So you often play dumb or play stupid. All right.

  • So let's take a look at several examples. Here is the first example. This one we

  • hear probably the most. Many wives complain that their husbands will play

  • dumb in order to get out of doing some house chores . Like Huh ? I don't know how to

  • do that. What ? Rag ? What do I wipe it like this ? Well what do I do ? Something like

  • that and maybe the wife will just give up in frustration. Or number two here.

  • Don't play dumb with me. Yeah. You might say that to somebody. I know you know how

  • to do this. Whatever this is. You know so Don't play dumb with me. .

  • Don't play stupid with me. Okay or number three. If anyone else asks just pretend

  • that you don't know. Okay. Play stupid and you'll get by. Basically just don't admit

  • to anything just pretend like you don't know you know. If there's no proof or

  • evidence. Maybe you can get by. All right. Number four. If the investigators ask any

  • questions just play dumb and pretend you don't.

  • All right so this is the way you will hear this used and this is the way we use it all the time. Okay. Anyway,, I hope you got it. I hope it was

  • clear. Thank you for your time. Bye-bye.

Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Idioms 250. All right. The idiom today is play dumb

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