play hard to get

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• Chinese Mandarin: 欲擒故縱 /欲擒故纵 (yùqíngùzòng) — to be coy; to feign lack of romantic interest in a certain person, so as to force that person to be more overt in expressing interest
• Chinese Mandarin: 故作矜持 (gùzuò jīnchí) — to be coy; to feign lack of romantic interest in a certain person, so as to force that person to be more overt in expressing interest
• Finnish: esittää vaikeasti tavoiteltavaa — to be coy; to feign lack of romantic interest in a certain person, so as to force that person to be more overt in expressing interest
• French: se faire désirer — to be coy; to feign lack of romantic interest in a certain person, so as to force that person to be more overt in expressing interest
• French: faire durer le plaisir — to be coy; to feign lack of romantic interest in a certain person, so as to force that person to be more overt in expressing interest
• Galician: facerse de rogar — to be coy; to feign lack of romantic interest in a certain person, so as to force that person to be more overt in expressing interest
• Polish: zgrywać osobę niedostępną — to be coy; to feign lack of romantic interest in a certain person, so as to force that person to be more overt in expressing interest
• Polish: udawać niedostępną — to be coy; to feign lack of romantic interest in a certain person, so as to force that person to be more overt in expressing interest
• Polish: udawać niedostępnego — to be coy; to feign lack of romantic interest in a certain person, so as to force that person to be more overt in expressing interest
• Portuguese: fazer de difícil — to be coy; to feign lack of romantic interest in a certain person, so as to force that person to be more overt in expressing interest
• Portuguese: fazer cu-doce — to be coy; to feign lack of romantic interest in a certain person, so as to force that person to be more overt in expressing interest
• Spanish: hacerse del rogar — to be coy; to feign lack of romantic interest in a certain person, so as to force that person to be more overt in expressing interest
• Spanish: hacerse de rogar — to be coy; to feign lack of romantic interest in a certain person, so as to force that person to be more overt in expressing interest
• Spanish: hacerse rogar — to be coy; to feign lack of romantic interest in a certain person, so as to force that person to be more overt in expressing interest
• Spanish: hacerse el difícil — to be coy; to feign lack of romantic interest in a certain person, so as to force that person to be more overt in expressing interest
• Spanish: hacerse la difícil — to be coy; to feign lack of romantic interest in a certain person, so as to force that person to be more overt in expressing interest
• Swedish: spela svår — to be coy; to feign lack of romantic interest in a certain person, so as to force that person to be more overt in expressing interest
• Tagalog: magdayuray — to be coy; to feign lack of romantic interest in a certain person, so as to force that person to be more overt in expressing interest
• Thai: เล่นตัว (lên-dtuua) — to be coy; to feign lack of romantic interest in a certain person, so as to force that person to be more overt in expressing interest