play dumb

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34 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Finnish: esittää mykkää — to pretend to be mute
• German: Stummheit vortäuschen — to pretend to be mute
• German: vorgeben stumm zu sein — to pretend to be mute
• Polish: udawać niemego — to pretend to be mute
• Catalan: fer l'orni — to pretend to be slow-witted
• Catalan: fer el desentès — to pretend to be slow-witted
• Dutch: van den domme houden — to pretend to be slow-witted
• Finnish: esittää tyhmää — to pretend to be slow-witted
• French: faire l'innocent — to pretend to be slow-witted
• German: sich dumm stellen — to pretend to be slow-witted
• German: (einen) auf dumm machen — to pretend to be slow-witted
• Hawaiian: hoʻonaʻaupō — to pretend to be slow-witted
• Italian: fare lo gnorri — to pretend to be slow-witted
• Italian: fare l'innocente — to pretend to be slow-witted
• Italian: fare il finto tonto — to pretend to be slow-witted
• Macedonian: се прави наудрен (se pravi naudren) — to pretend to be slow-witted
• Polish: udawać Greka — to pretend to be slow-witted
• Polish: udać Greka — to pretend to be slow-witted
• Portuguese: fazer-se de tonto — to pretend to be slow-witted
• Romanian: face pe prostul — to pretend to be slow-witted
• Russian: приду́риваться (pridúrivatʹsja) — to pretend to be slow-witted
• Spanish: hacerse el sueco — to pretend to be slow-witted
• Spanish: hacerse el longuis — to pretend to be slow-witted
• Spanish: hacerse el/la de las gafas — to pretend to be slow-witted
• Spanish: hacerse el tonto — to pretend to be slow-witted
• Spanish: desentenderse — to pretend to be slow-witted
• Spanish: sota — to pretend to be slow-witted
• Spanish: hacerse el longui — to pretend to be slow-witted
• Spanish: hacerse el oso — to pretend to be slow-witted
• Spanish: hacerse el chancho rengo — to pretend to be slow-witted
• Spanish: hacerse el que la virgen le habla — to pretend to be slow-witted
• Swedish: spela dum — to pretend to be slow-witted
• Thai: ทําไก๋ — to pretend to be slow-witted
• Thai: ทําเป็นไขสือ — to pretend to be slow-witted