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Today's expression, to feign something.

To feign something. Are you feigning sick? He's feigning sleep.

Hmm. What does this mean fain? F-E-I-G-N. To feign something is another way of saying to fake something, to fake being sick, to fake sleeping.

This is the idea. To play sick or to play dead. To act like you're sleeping, to act like you're sick.

This is the idea to feign something.

Now, most of us are adults.

Most of you listening to this podcast are adults, right?

So do you ever feign a sickness or something like this?

When do we feign something? We feign something so that we don't have to do something else.

The perfect idea would be children. Yes, children, when they don't want to go to school, they feign sick, right?

Absolutely, absolutely. Oh, another good example. They say if you are in the forest and you see a bear or some other vicious animal, they say you should

feign death.

You should pretend that you're dead.

Just lay down on the ground like you're dead.

Uh-huh.

Is that a good idea?

I don't know.

I've never...

Well, actually, I have met bears in the woods, and I ran away.

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