pretend to be ignorant of sth.
Pushing the deaf to be dumb, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is Tu ī L ó ngzu ò y ǎ, which means pretending to be indifferent and know nothing. It's from naotongtai.
The origin of Idioms
Yuan · anonymous's "naotongtai" second discount: "now I pretend to be drunk like crazy, push deaf do dumb, wait for the time."
Idiom usage
I don't know. I don't know. I don't know.
Chinese PinYin : tuī lóng zuò yǎ
pretend to be ignorant of sth.
know without consulting an oracle. wèi bǔ xiān zhī
an endless stream of dreamy thoughts , as if from an inexhaustible spool. qiān chóu wàn xù