Significato: bluff 
blʌf n. costa alta e ripida, scogliera; promontorio a picco v. fare un bluff a; ingannare; ottenere bluffando adj. scosceso, ripido, a picco; (fig) schietto, franco, sincero
luff Idioma
call his bluff
sluff off
bit of fluff
bumfluff
fluff one's lines
Idiom(s): fluff one's lines AND blow one's lines; muff one's linesTheme: FORGETFULNESS
to speak one's speech badly or forget one's lines when one is in a play. (Informal.)
• The actress fluffed her lines badly in the last act.
• I was in a play once, and I muffed my lines over and over.
• It's okay to blow your lines in rehearsal.
call one's bluff
Idiom(s): call one's bluffTheme: CHALLENGE
to demand that someone prove a claim; to demonstrate that a person is or is not being deceptive.
• All right, I'll call your bluff Show me you can do it!
• Tom said, "I've got a gun here in my pocket, and I'll shoot if you come any closer!" "Go ahead," said Bill, calling his bluff.
blow one's lines|blow|fluff|fluff one's lines|line
v. phr., informal To forget the words you are supposed to speak while acting in a play. The noise backstage scared Mary and she blew her lines.call one's bluff|bluff|call
v. phr., informal To ask someone to prove what he says he can or will do. (Originally from the card game of poker.) Tom said he could jump twenty feet and so Dick called his bluff and said "Let's see you do it!"fluff stuff|fluff|stuff
n., slang, citizen's band radio jargon Snow. We can expect some fluff stuff this afternoon.bluff
bluffsee call someone's bluff.
call someone's bluff
call someone's bluffExpose someone's deception, invite a showdown, as in I don't believe they have enough capital; I'm going to call their bluff. This term comes from poker, where bluffing (pretending) that one has better cards than one's opponents is an intrinsic part of the game, and calling someone's bluff means forcing them to show their cards. By the late 1800s it was being applied to other enterprises. Also see show one's hand.
fluff
fluffbit of fluff
or piece of fluff
Slang a girl or young woman: now often regarded as patronizing
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