play hard to get

English

Verb

play hard to get (third-person singular simple present plays hard to get, present participle playing hard to get, simple past and past participle played hard to get)

1. (courtship) To be coy; to feign lack of romantic interest in a certain person, so as to force that person to be more overt in expressing interest.

Translations

to be coy; to feign lack of romantic interest in a certain person, so as to force that person to be more overt in expressing interest

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 欲擒故縱／欲擒故纵 (zh) (yùqíngùzòng), 故作矜持 (gùzuò jīnchí)

• Finnish: esittää vaikeasti tavoiteltavaa
• Galician: facerse de rogar
• Spanish: hacerse del rogar, hacerse el difícil m, hacerse la difícil f
• Swedish: spela svår
• Tagalog: magdayuray
• Thai: เล่นตัว (th) (lên-dtuua)