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Newguest Posted 17 years ago
Vocabulary

Ride out...

Hi

Certain problems you can ride out with bluster and bluff, but there's no way of bluffing your way out of that ......

I understand that sometimes, some problems you can disregard with a smile on your face, but not all of them. Is it what the above sentence means?
  

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"Bluster and bluff" doesn't so much mean a smile on your face, as confident, even loudly proclaimed mistruths or outright lies. "Bluff" refers to the lying part - you might "bluff" your way into a wedding by pretending that you were invited but left the invitation at home. "Bluster" is the loud, indignant part.

— Delmobile

  • "Bluster and bluff" doesn't so much mean a smile on your face, as confident, even loudly proclaimed mistruths or outright lies.
  • "Bluff" refers to the lying part - you might "bluff" your way into a wedding by pretending that you were invited but left the invitation at home.
  • "Bluster" is the loud, indignant part.
  • "What do you mean, you can't let me in without an admit card?
  • The bride is one of my very closest friends!
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"Bluster and bluff" doesn't so much mean a smile on your face, as confident, even loudly proclaimed mistruths or outright lies. "Bluff" refers to the lying part - you might "bluff" your way into a wedding by pretending that you were invited but left the invitation at home. "Bluster" is the loud, indignant part. "What do you mean, you can't let me in without an admit card? The bride is one of m
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Hi

So is it possible to rephrase it this way: Sometimes, some problems you can pretend that they do not exist, but not all of them..... Maybe it's too general, but it seems to me it's more or less what it means.
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Yes, if the "pretending" is pretending to others (as opposed to pretending to yourself).
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Thank you Delmobile!
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