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Onelook Posted 8 years ago
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Push their pretend act

These kids were playing pirates so I volunteered to be a merchant to see how far they would push their pretend act and if these kids were being responsible with their wooden sword.


push their pretend act sounds really completely ungrammatical or unidiomatic.

  

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push - pursue or advocate something with energy and persistence an act - something that involves pretending Consider this simpler example. In order to impress a girl,Tom pretended to be the owner of the huge company where he worked. He even got some business cards saying he was the owner, and he rented a very expensive car.

  • push - pursue or advocate something with energy and persistence an act - something that involves pretending Consider this simpler example.
  • In order to impress a girl,Tom pretended to be the owner of the huge company where he worked.
  • He even got some business cards saying he was the owner, and he rented a very expensive car.
  • He really pushed his owner act.
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push - pursue or advocate something with energy and persistence

an act - something that involves pretending


Consider this simpler example.

In order to impress a girl,Tom pretended to be the owner of the huge company where he worked.

He even got some business cards saying he was the owner, and he rented a very expensive car.

He really

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