Sentence examples similar to bluff off from inspiring English sources

Hughes's text allowed him only to be "big and strong" and to have "a bluff off-hand manner, which passed for heartiness, and considerable powers of being pleasant when he liked".

And once one bluff goes off, the rest is inertia.

Like riverboat gamblers casting loaded dice, Iran's leaders have played a double game of deceit, duplicity and Persian blind man's bluff in on-off talks with western countries since the existence of suspect nuclear facilities was first exposed.

As the Mexicans stopped to reload their cannon, the Texians climbed a bluff and picked off some of the soldiers.

Can't escape and spend a terrible half-hour bluffing my head off whilst pretending I listened to his every word.

Yes, and that was no bluff: bombs also went off in Kabul.

McCain has just the sort of devil-may-care, Top Gun mentality (with accompanying set of brass testes) to possibly pull off a bluff of this magnitude.

A player who cannot fire off a bluff because he is worried about his daughter's private-school tuition will be quickly run over by the players who don't have such concerns.

Halloween celebrations attract thousands of out-of-towners and have turned violent, with fires in the streets and drunk students falling off the bluff, sometimes to their deaths.

After weeks of ferocious squealing from the City, Treasury prevarication and dire warnings of mass exodus and evasion, Darling finally called the bankers' bluff by announcing a one-off 50% super-tax on City bonuses of more than £25,000 in his pre-budget report.

"Why didn't I immediately start a conversation or push him off the bluff into the sea?" he later wondered.