come the raw prawn
Australian EnglishDefinition
› to try to deceive someone, especially by pretending that you have no knowledge of something: Don't come the raw prawn with me - you know very well what I'm talking about.Faking and pretending
(Definition of come the raw prawn from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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- Dishonest people
- Disloyalty, betrayal & treason
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- Lies, lying & hypocrisy
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come rain or shine idiom
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come round phrasal verb (BECOME CONSCIOUS)
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come round phrasal verb (CHANGE YOUR MIND)
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come round phrasal verb (HAPPEN)
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come round phrasal verb (VISIT)
- come the raw prawn idiom
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come the sth idiom
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come through (sth) phrasal verb
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come through phrasal verb (EMOTION)
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come through phrasal verb (INFORMATION)
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come to a full stop idiom
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Synonyms and related words:
- a wolf in sheep's clothing idiom
- affect verb (PRETEND)
- assume verb (PRETEND TO HAVE)
- believe verb
- changeling noun
- charlatan noun
- fake verb (OBJECT)
- false adjective (NOT TRUE)
- false modesty noun
- falsify verb
- feign verb
- masquerade as sb/sth phrasal verb
- massage verb (FACTS/NUMBERS)
- pass sth/sb off as sth/sb phrasal verb
- phoney adjective
- play-acting noun
- purport verb
- put sth on phrasal verb (PRETEND)
- quackery noun
- simulate verb
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