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"play dead" Definitions
  1. to lie on one's back and pretend to be dead
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I huddled there, hunched in a ball, trying to play dead.
The goal was disallowed because the referee blew the play dead.
His new way of throwing a tantrum is to PLAY DEAD!!!
"But boy, I will not lay down and play dead, ever."
In case of trouble, or when they are disturbed, they play dead.
You will be able to play Dead Rising 4 this holiday season.
The official blew the play dead when Herndon moved a second time.
A good visual of this is when animals 'play dead' under stress.
If the hissing doesn't work to scare off predators, opossums play dead.
Do not play dead with a polar bear"I wouldn't play dead with a polar bear because generally they are thinking food and if they are on to you, they walked a distance to find you," says Morgan.
For one thing, official Washington isn't going to roll over and play dead.
Dogs do it, possums do it, and now...horses apparently play dead too.
Tiara tried to play dead so the shooter wouldn't fire on her more.
In a perfect and orderly world, a ref would blow the play dead.
Orr managed to play dead, and eventually the bear lost interest and left.
Along with puffing up to ward off threats, this snake will also play dead.
Within a year of her departure, Theresa opened a play, Dead Accounts, on Broadway.
This is ideal, and if your boss walks by, you can always play dead.
Attack the sensitive snout, and gouge the eyes, and definitely do not play dead.
If he got close, she would shut her eyes, hold her breath, play dead.
What if Eve remembered Hugo's earlier advice and decided to play dead in this moment?
However, officials whistled the play dead when Budaj smothered the puck with his leg pad.
People want us to be sexy warriors who roll over and play dead on command.
Oh my gosh, so I was, like, Googling YouTube tutorials on how to play dead.
I knew I needed to play dead, or the bear was going to tear me apart.
A real-life grizzly you might be able to run from, or successfully play dead for.
Second, Hamas will not play dead just because it is under pressure to proceed with reconciliation.
Do not play dead in that situation, she added, because you will be an easy target.
When threatened, eastern hognose snakes often play dead by rolling onto their backs and opening their mouths.
If it's a grizzly bear, on the other hand, you should basically just play dead and pray.
In 2012, Holmes starred in her own show at the Music Box Theater: the playDead Accounts.
" And to Cramer, the facts are simple: "Some stocks just refuse to roll over and play dead.
However, a review determined an official blew the play dead prior to the puck crossing the line.
" In a tweet today, Lahren clapped back, writing: "Lay down and play dead really isn't my style.
Only when it makes contact should you play dead to show that you are not a threat.
But one thing is now clear: North Korea isn't going to just roll over and play dead.
The American people didn't give Democrats majority support so we could come back to Washington and play dead.
"Hide somewhere, play dead," the mother can be heard telling her daughter in the background of the 911 call.
He knew, from the start of his career, that often the only way to survive is to play dead.
Referees whistled the play dead and said a video replay could not determine whether the puck had crossed the line.
Regular, breathing Americans will no longer have to play dead when they apply for insurance, like they did under Obama.
The referees blew the play dead and stood nearby, dawdling like a pair of plainclothes detectives at a crime scene.
Certainly, it would be a reassuring message to our base that we're not going to roll over and play dead.
During a quick demo, it took a few tries to get Aibo to play dead; instead, he barked or didn't move.
North Carolina State Parks and Recreation officials recently posted about a "zombie" snake that likes to play dead whenever it's threatened.
So I think the best thing to do would be to fight back, put up a fight, definitely don't play dead.
In this case we are looking for Pogo rather than Yogi, though, Pogo being one of those possums that PLAY DEAD.
It may play dead for several minutes before cautiously turning over, looking around to see if it is safe before crawling away.
F.Y.I. Q. There is an Off Broadway play, "Dead Dog Park," running through March 6, about a police killing in Upper Manhattan.
There are a lot of tricks you can teach your pet — fetch, roll over, play dead, bark on command, and so on.
They play dead—head down, limbs limp, making no effort whatsoever—and in this manner discover that even a corpse goes round.
The Zombie Plant Grow Kit from TickleMe Plant offers ongoing entertainment with its plant that seems to play dead at your touch.
The dogs are then allowed to perform tricks, such as give paw or play dead, in the center of the show floor.
On Friday, Ms. Lahren said on Twitter that she had another final thought: "Lay down and play dead really isn't my style."
With a grizzly bear, your best chance of survival is to curl up in a ball, play dead, and cry for your mama.
The young strikers were chanting "Save our Earth" as they marched into the government compound, before lying down on the ground to play dead.
And members of the House are currently in their home districts during a 10-day recess, within reach of constituents eager to play dead.
Trick categories, called "packs" within the app, are organized by type: "Basics" (sit, stay), "Silly" (roll over, play dead), "Useful" (fetch leash), and so on.
Lock your fingers behind your neck, cover up your neck and basically just remain as quiet and still as you can and literally play dead.
Shares were volatile Wednesday following a downgrade from Bernstein to market perform, in which analysts called the shipping play "dead money" for the near term.
Look, we have a saying, where I&aposm from, it&aposs called break bread or play dead, and that&aposs what we&aposre doing with China.
It is easier to play dead with your head elevated, allowing your bodily fluids to drain down rather than pooling in your mouth, eyes and face.
Here are some excerpts: 'You need to play dead' One person called 911 on behalf of a mother who was on speaker phone with her daughter.
The man beat and stomped and kicked Mom until she believed she would die, until she felt the lone way to stay alive was to play dead.
She tells him the story of Wyatt, the man who slaughtered her hometown and forced her to play dead in her mother's blood in order to survive.
In addition to making death a huge part of Mortician's Tale, DaRienzo also hosts the Play Dead podcast, where she explores death in video games more broadly.
In a wonderfully comic scene, cited at length by Bloom, Falstaff will play dead like a circus dog in order to avoid being killed in Hal's war.
The victim, said Jenkins, attempted to play dead but alleged to authorities that Calhoun-Murdock told her she could still hear her breathing, according to the Tribune.
As Tran later told US military investigators, she fell to the ground and tried to play dead, but a soldier saw her and pulled her back up.
The night before the ceremony, he went out drinking with his fellow nominees, and Waititi suggested that when their names were read out loud, they should all play dead.
Made up of art school performers, they would often have people play dead on stage, play a triangle or Batman would fly out into the crowd in a dress.
I can already hear the mashing of keyboards as people rattle off their prepared responses: Girls don't play Dead or Alive, so the developers would be wasting their time.
Don't lie down and play dead (this is also true for bears and other predators): if the animal is hungry and views you as docile prey, you'll be dinner.
In that sort of sudden encounter, that's when if you were being attacked by a bear that you surprised or had a sudden encounter, that's the time to play dead.
The rule basically says that a referee can retroactively rule a play dead even though he didn't blow the whistle in time, because in his mind he had intended to.
The issue: The Penguins won the Stanley Cup thanks to a blown call in which a Predators goal was waved off because the referee had mistakenly whistled the play dead.
Refusing to roll over and play dead, his orphaned 12-year-old nephew, Atari (Koyu Rankin), steals a small plane and flies to the island to find his beloved pet, Spots.
However, as explained on Boston's TV broadcast, the referees told the NHL Situation Room they blew the play dead before the puck crossed the goal line, and thus it was not reviewable.
In the most affecting essay in the collection, she details her sexual assault as a freshman in college, overcoming her impulse to play dead in order to testify at her rapist's trial.
She sweeps floors, scoops dog poo, and hand washes laundry, taking the occasional break to play dead with the youngest child, Pepe, or to join the family as they watch late-night television.
And we find around the country that a lot of these judges who I think a lot of people thought would just roll over and play dead for this administration aren't doing it.
What if he could not roll over and play dead on command, if "Sit" or "Down" were not mandates but suggestions, if the dog was in heat and humped the leg of the examiner?
In July 1996, a young bear found a campsite along a popular hiking trail and fatally attacked a woman who tried to play dead, believing it would cause the bear to leave her alone.
" She added: "ISIS is going to play dead in order to rebuild its forces, and it's going to break out rapidly, because the United States is not paying attention to what is happening in Iraq.
Holmes' close friend, Judy Greer, who worked onstage with the actress in the New York play Dead Accounts and later in All We Had, sang her praises for Holmes' first turn behind the camera – mostly.
Less than two minutes later, the Islanders appeared to score after a scrum in front of Luongo, but the officials ruled that they had whistled the play dead before the puck crossed the goal line.
You can imagine a scenario where a referee really does decide to blow the play dead, and in the short time before he can do it the puck squirts free and ends up in the net.
"Anton [Palmer who plays the child] was seven, so we couldn't let on that I was strangling him, and we couldn't get him to play dead, as he'd just pull a silly dead face," Pugh says.
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A golden retriever thought it'd be cool to play dead while its human tried to leave with it at a park in Burleigh Hill, Australia, as per a video uploaded to the 9 News Gold Coast Facebook page.
After stopping a Titans fake field goal, Buccaneers safety Andrew Adams picked up the loose ball and ran it into the end zone, but officials had already blown the play dead claiming the runner was down by contact.
It is, of course, a living male actor who has been covered in brown and gold paint and told to play dead—modern day medical ethics mean corpses are treated with a lot more respect than back in the 1800s.
I don't know quite enough about how he was thinking about it to answer fully but I think looking at his work I could see where he might have said to people, play dead as one of his idiosyncratic ideas.
There are also two songs on the LP—"Learn How To Play Dead" and "Pictures Now"—that were recorded in the studio during One Chord To Another, but we chose to not use them on the LP in the end.
When you're doing a dead body it's fine, you're lying there, unless you've been running and get shot, you have to [control your breathing], (Cunningham mimics huffing and puffing and then suddenly trying to hold his breath and play dead).
"We are here, we will not be silent, we will not play dead, we will fight for what we believe in," Warren told a crowd estimated at 120,000 to 125,000 people, according to CNN, which cited a senior police official.
The puck trickled through a maze of Canucks defenders in the slot and off the tip of Jordie Benn's skate on its way to Aho, but officials blew the play dead for the penalty just as Aho was taking his shot.
Plus three from cable newsers: Jim Acosta's "The Enemy of the People" on June 22020; Joy-Ann Reid's Trump book, "The Man Who Sold America," out June 25; and Tomi Lahren's "Never Play Dead: How the Truth Makes You Unstoppable," out July 2.
With Myles Jack about to return a fumble for a touchdown that would have sealed a win for the Jaguars, Brady used telekinetic powers to make an official blow the play dead before Jack could put the Jaguars ahead by 17 points.
The biggest lead in finding the mastermind behind the attack comes in the form of bullet shrapnel from the aforementioned mercenary, which Bond has buried in his shoulder—evidence that could've been useful weeks ago had he not chosen to play dead.
Safety Andrew Adams picked up the loose ball and began sprinting towards the end zone with no one between him and a go-ahead touchdown, but the officials whistled the play dead, claiming that Kern had been down before the fumble occurred.
Like stories told around a campfire, Weaver described an Eskimo approached by a polar bear, who sniffed him up and down, breathing into his face as he lay motionless on the ground, and about the Eskimo's companion who didn't play dead and was eaten.
At home at CenturyLink Field the Seahawks were 4-268.5, even though the stadium is designed to harness crowd noise so effectively that, at one point this season, an opposing lineman was flagged for unnecessary roughness because he couldn't hear the referees whistle the play dead.
MUTEMATH's fifth album, Play Dead, is out September 8 (you can pre-order it here) and the two singles the band have released already, "Hit Parade" and "Stroll On," don't engage with disorder like that—the former is a distorted prog romp, the latter all lush R&B-pop.
"The people of Massachusetts didn't send me to Washington to roll over and play dead while Donald Trump and his team of billionaires, bigots, and Wall Street bankers crush the working people of our Commonwealth and this country," Warren wrote in an email to supporters, according to the Boston Globe.
"My job is to keep my personal beliefs out of it, but I absolutely believe that our citizens have constitutional rights and our institutions have an obligation to serve those citizens and not simply roll over and play dead," he said Tuesday, according to the AP. View the discussion thread.
The book skips merrily from topic to ghoulish topic, exploring the mechanics of those Coney Island death traps; peering at the lurid attractions of the sideshows of old; weaving a story about Victorian hair art; poking away at humanity's curious impulse to "play dead;" and delving into the emotional intricacies of collecting other people's mourning objects.
Ramadevi shares her own story in voiceover throughout; how she'd play dead as men raped her to numb the pain; her yearning for her daughter; how her father never stopped looking for her—and how she eventually escaped and found her way back home, where her father wept tears of joy but never asked her what happened, because he already knew.
This dog's got a whole list of "spells" ready to go, including: "Stupefy": lay down "Wingardium Leviosa": beg "Avada Kedavra": play dead "Ascendio": go up the stairs "Descendo": go down the stairs (although he tried an adorable shortcut for this the first time) "Revelio": come "Accio ball": fetch the ball "Expelliarmus": drop "Lux": turn on a light "Nox": turn off the light "Aguamenti": go pee (yes, on command!) Way to go, Remus!
More so, in The New York Times article, "In Shift, Police Advise Taking an Active Role to Counter Mass Attacks," studies conducted by law enforcement in the Virginia Tech shooting showed that "the students and teacher blocked the door with a heavy desk and held it in place, [the shooter] could not get in, and everyone lived," compared to those that tried to "hide or play dead," in which almost all were shot or died.
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