pose as sb
— phrasal verb with pose uk/pəʊz/us/poʊz/verb
C2 If you pose as a particular person, you pretend to be that person in order to deceive people:
He's posing as her date, but he's really her bodyguard.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Faking & pretending
- a wolf in sheep's clothing idiom
- affect
- assume
- believe
- bluff
- changeling
- charlatan
- falsify
- feign
- fraud
- go through the motions idiom
- guise
- phoney
- play at sth
- play possum idiom
- play sth out
- play-acting
- professed
- purport
- quack
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