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let on

verb

  1. to allow (something, such as a secret) to be known; reveal

    he never let on that he was married

  2. tr to cause or encourage to be believed; pretend
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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I think it’s safe to assume she knows more than she’s letting on.

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If the no vote of his former ally in McConnell fazed him, the president didn't let on.

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But the situation was more harrowing than the “Mary Poppins†star let on.

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Why, it’s almost as if she learned the Plastics' trick of luring someone to gossip about another person on the phone without letting on that it's a three-way conference with the subject silently listening.

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Gladys did not let on to her adopted parents she knew.

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