0 to deceive someone by making them think either that you are going to do something when you really have no intention of doing it, or that you have knowledge that you do not really have, or that you are someone else:
1 an attempt to bluff:
3 direct or too honest, often in a way that people find rude:
4 to try to trick someone into believing something, esp. in order to get an advantage over that person:
5 (used in many names of places) a cliff or steep slope, often above a river:
Council Bluffs, Iowa
He is bluffing us and he is bluffing himself.
We are not talking about bluffing and false bids.
The milling combine will refuse to give information, and will go on bluffing up to the last minute.
Patients are bluffed into buying private frames at high fees, when there is no reason to do so at all.
I understand that some 170 firms of timber importers in this country have already been bluffed.
I hope they will not be bluffed by the apparent present reasonableness of this régime.
He had thought that we were bluffing, but he realised that he was wrong.
Then even if the people have the sense not to be bluffed, what happens?
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虛張聲勢, 嚇唬, 假裝…
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虚张声势, 吓唬, 假装…
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marcarse un farol, fingir, engaño [masculine]…
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blefar…
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blöf yapmak, ... mış gibi davranmak, böyle yaparak birini ikna etmek…
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bluffer, donner le change, bluff [masculine]…
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přímý, otevřený, blafovat…
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bramfri, jævn, ligefrem…
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