try it on
UK informalto deceive someone or behave badly, especially in order to discover how much of your bad behaviour will be allowed:
He's not really ill - he's just trying it on.
The kids often try it on with a new babysitter.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Bad and wrong behaviour
- act
- act out
- act up
- angel
- astray
- at your worst idiom
- be no angel idiom
- cross
- go off the rails idiom
- go round
- impossible
- incorrigible
- indecorous
- rail
- rough
- sink to such a level/such depths idiom
- step
- step out of line idiom
- step/be out of line idiom
- terrible twins
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