Double Bluff

There are, of course, other potential explanations for what happened: a genuine softening of police tactics; an existing awareness of kettling procedure among protesters; a police double-bluff; coincidence. ❋ Unknown (2011)

In the following weeks, Kasztner and Eichmann played a game of “double-bluff,”60 both sides playing for time, each aware that the other was unlikely to meet his commitments. ❋ ROBERT MNOOKIN (2010)

His audiences do seem to be embracing the double-bluff. ❋ Unknown (2010)

One big beast Labour cabinet minister told me after the election that for months, early this year, he considered the Conservative campaign so poorly executed that he thought it must be an elaborate ruse, a double-bluff: I kept waking up in the morning thinking, right, today is the day when they will get started on us. ❋ Iain Martin (2010)

I wonder if Des is doing a double-bluff and actually including the stories in order of the list of authors... ❋ Bob Lock (2009)

Either this is an elaborate double-bluff or we are all going to need to heavily caffeinate ourselves to get through the speech, my money — the £1.79 for a coffee at Pret to be precise — is on the latter. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I spotted the villain and the hero immediately, but that might just have been luck, and there is enough bluff, double-bluff, agents and double-agents to keep the reader guessing about the exact details of the plot. ❋ Carla (2008)

Some might think that puts me into the fray, but that's just a double-bluff. ❋ Ann Althouse (2007)

The writer claims it was all an elaborate double-bluff to humiliate Milo, but insists the final bullet was a blank. ❋ DAVID BISHOP (2006)

A good way to avoid this game of bluff and double-bluff is to give them a intellectual treat. ❋ Unknown (2006)

"It would be one hell of a double-bluff," Reacher said. ❋ Child, Lee (2006)

“It would be one hell of a double-bluff,” Reacher said. ❋ Child, Lee (2006)

Kerron has performed something which is known as a double-bluff. ❋ Kerron Cross (2006)