Play possum

Thinking fast, we played possum, hoping the bear wouldn't bother us.

The soldier played possum, fooling the sniper.

To keep the focus away from his client, the lawyer basically played possum during the entire complex trial, and his tactic paid off with an acquittal.

What happened to Job after that I am sure I do not know, but my own impression is that he lay still upon the corpse of his deceased assailant, "playing 'possum" as the Americans say.

When we used to get home late at night, I would play possum so my daddy would carry me inside and put me in bed.

Though, as it afterwards turned out, the Yankee had money enough about him, and was merely playing the ’possum all the while.

Never imposing upon any one myself, I suffered no one to play the possum with me.

You have been holding-in all this while — possumus omnes, we all play the ’possum...

As none came with the coach from Deadwood, I suppose the amount of funds was insignificant. You can't tell, though, for the stage company is liable to play possum sometimes.