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let on

vb. (context idiomatic English) to reveal, disclose, or divulge

WordNet
let on

v. make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret; "The auction house would not disclose the price at which the van Gogh had sold"; "The actress won't reveal how old she is"; "bring out the truth"; "he broke the news to her" [syn: disclose, bring out, reveal, discover, expose, divulge, impart, break, give away, let out]

Usage examples of "let on".

The badly injured Mexican bit his lower lip and hissed like a steam kettle, but never let on how bad it really must have felt as Longarm picked him up, with some effort, and shoved him gently as possible into the wagon behind the trunk.

Mato Takoza said the older gal had been way more educated than she'd let on to strangers.