Meaning:
Pretending to be dead, or to be deceitful about something.
Examples:
- I believe the subject is playing possum.
- I was playing possum on you by pretending—Yeah, no, no, no, no, no. Don't even.
- Don't hear anything, but they may be playing possum.
- Maybe she's playing possum until he goes away.
- I never know whether she's playing possum or not.
- Playing possum, the one thing that absolutely everyone knows possums do.
- Playing possum, the one thing that absolutely everyone knows possums do.
- I was playing possum, laying low till the heat was off.
- Uh, I think she's playing possum.
- I was playing possum.