The phrase "acting surprised" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe someone who is pretending to be surprised, often in a context where they already know the outcome or information.
Example: "She was acting surprised when she received the news, but I could tell she had known all along."
Alternatives: "feigning surprise" or "pretending to be surprised".
Further, the only thing that's actually surprising about any of this is that people are acting surprised.
Salih is the Prime Minister of the area of Kurdistan administered by the Patriotic Union, and he spoke in such a way as to suggest that it would be best if I, too, stopped acting surprised.
Check-Iquette Do Say hello; smile; make eye contact; put a divider behind your shopping, instead of assuming the next person will do it; have your wallet ready, instead of acting surprised when they want payment.
When student test scores take a front and center position and the livelihoods of teachers, leaders, and schools are dependent on these scores, we must stop acting surprised that cheating scandals emerge.
("I'm finding it a little curious that everybody is suddenly acting surprised that this looked like it was disadvantaging Hillary Clinton because you guys wrote about it every day").
Though, a friend of mine who works at Merrill put the merger rather succinctly: "It's like buying a house during Hurricane Katrina and then acting surprised later the house is uninhabitable because of flood damage".Nonetheless, after Mr Lewis realised how bad things were at Merrill, he claims he tried to back out of the deal.
The biggest acting surprise of last year – Mickey Rourke's portrayal of a washed up piece of meat in The Wrestler – won him best actor, beating strong competition in the form of Frank Langella, Sean Penn, Brad Pitt and the British newcomer Dev Patel.
On YouTube, there's a video of one biting off a finger, and of the man whose finger it used to be acting terribly surprised, the way that people who offer sandwiches to bears, or jump security fences to pose beside tigers, ultimately are.
Let's not keep acting so surprised.
"Leadership is not fanning the flames of intolerance and then acting all surprised when the fire breaks out.
In my mind, NHL owners handing out long term, big money contracts to overpriced talent they now claim are out of control, is a little like the heroin dealer acting all surprised when their customers are scratching at their door for an extra fix.
