play dead



play dead

to pretend to be dead. When the bear attacked me, I just dropped down and played dead.
See also: dead, play

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Louisloo-EE (French), LOO-is (English)French, English, Dutch
Prosenjit-Bengali
BrentonBREN-tənEnglish
VilhelmVEEL-helm (Finnish)Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Hungarian
Joella-English
Alton['ɔ:ltən]