Welcome Back to Sunday & Southern Monthly!
If you missed the first installment, be sure to read Issue 1 where I give a full definition of colloquial and a favorite example of one.
Here in Sunday & Southern Monthly in an attempt to bring a little southern style, charm, grace, and humor to you once a month, I publish a colloquialism unique to the South ~ a southernisms.
My lovely youngest daughter, has taken to practicing this every morning ~
Playing Possum
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to feign sleep or death.
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to dissemble or pretend ignorance
Expanded Definition
To pretend to be dead, a trick used by opossums to defend themselves from predators. By extension, it also means to pretend to be asleep, or to lie low.
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