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Meanings of good bluff in English

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Usage of good bluff in English
1
A good bluff, well chucked, is liable to do considerable execution.
Fables for the Times
2
Two or three times a good bluff would have saved him.
Bunker Bean
3
A man like you could put up a good bluff on those hayseeds.
Mr. Standfast
4
Formality and a good bluff were all that was keeping her from my throat.
Storm front
5
The only way you'll get what you want-andget it quickly-isby a good bluff.
Blow The Man Down: A Romance Of The Coast
6
It was a good bluff, and deceived Octavian.
The Memoirs of Cleopatra
7
Got it? I thought it was a pretty good bluff, considering I didn't have the hundred.
Gentlemen prefer succubi
8
They learned how to put up a pretty good bluff-andbluff Counts a lot in politics.
Plunkitt of Tammany Hall: a series of very plain talks on very p...
9
It's a good bluff, as I said before, and I admire the way you worked it.
Way of the Lawless
10
A real good bluff gives more pleasure than all the honest exercises of one's life put together.
The Loom of Youth
11
Essence of any good bluff.
Broken angels
12
With a baby it was a good bluff; without one, the girl's ingenuity seemed to him to touch genius.
The Best British Short Stories of 1922
13
In fact, if we put up a good bluff there's hardly any end to the extent to which we can bleed them.
Gossamer
14
It can be played only once in a sitting-in; it has got to be backed with good bluff, but it's a peach when it works.
Blow The Man Down: A Romance Of The Coast
15
Den he says slow like, turnin' his hoss 'round: 'Bartlett, yo' am puttin' up a good bluff, but, by Gawd, I'm goin' ter call yo'.
Keith of the Border: A Tale of the Plains
16
Ride to the south, and unless you find good bluffs to the east, don't rest till you reach Souris.
Annette, the Metis Spy: A Heroine of the N.W. Rebellion
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