Interpretation: playing dumb.

Source: Ming Gaoming's "Pipa Story Miss Niu admonishes her father": "If you are stupid, you will be seen by the copywriter."

He played the fool and was seen through by the imitator.

Use: combined; As predicate, object and attribute.

Example: Are those gimmicks good for you or your audience?

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Synonyms of "gawking" and "stopping":

First, play the fool.

Interpretation: deliberately pretending to be crazy and selling stupidity.

Source: Wang Yuanjian's "Three Notes": "That is the world of the Kuomintang white devils, so I will pretend to be crazy for him."

Second, play dumb.

Explanation: To pretend to be deaf and dumb is to deliberately ignore it, as if you don't know.

Source: Lu Xun's "Three Leisure Collections on the Bell Tower": "So I had to copy the method of ancient fairy tales and pretend to be deaf and dumb."