"Professor Brown is playing very hard to get," our dean said, "but I know he will accept our offer and come to teach here."
Словарь американских идиом. — СПб., Изд-во "Лань". Оригинал: A.Маккей, М.Т.Боткер, Дж.И.Гейтс. 1997.
play hard to get — To make a show of unwillingness to co operate with a view to strengthening one s position • • • Main Entry: ↑play * * * play hard to get informal phrase to pretend not to be interested in someone who you think is sexually attractive in order to… … Useful english dictionary
play hard to get — {v. phr.} To act as if one weren t interested; be fickle; be coy. * / Professor Brown is playing very hard to get, our dean said, but I know he will accept our offer and come to teach here. / … Dictionary of American idioms
play hard to get — {v. phr.} To act as if one weren t interested; be fickle; be coy. * / Professor Brown is playing very hard to get, our dean said, but I know he will accept our offer and come to teach here. / … Dictionary of American idioms
play hard to get — If someone plays hard to get, they pretend not to be interewsted or attracted by someone, usually to make the other person increase their efforts … The small dictionary of idiomes
play hard to get — ► play hard to get informal deliberately adopt an uninterested attitude. Main Entry: ↑hard … English terms dictionary
play hard to get — pretend you do not care; you do not want him When Tom invites you to go on a date, you could play hard to get … English idioms
play hard to get — informal to pretend that you are less interested in someone than you really are as a way of making them more interested in you, especially at the start of a romantic relationship. Why don t you return any of his calls? Are you playing hard to… … New idioms dictionary
play hard to get — informal deliberately adopt an aloof or uninterested attitude. → hard … English new terms dictionary
play hard to get — verb To be coy; to feign lack of romantical interest in a certain person, so as to force that person to be more overt in expressing interest … Wiktionary
play hard to get — informal to pretend not to be interested in someone who you think is sexually attractive in order to make them more interested in you … English dictionary
