Example of what I'm going to call a head fake , or indirect learning.

实上，我们不在意我们的孩子学习足球。

youdao

He also explained it this way: "I think the cruelest thing you can do to somebody is give them the head fake... nice appraisals... that's called false kindness."

他还这样解释道：“我想你能对别人做的最残忍的事，是给他们做个头部假动作……给他们好评……那叫伪善。”

youdao

If needed do some fake letter head, get a fax number in the same town / phone exchange, and pretty soon you could be the head of the smallest branch office of that corporation.

如有必要，还可以伪造一些假信头，弄一个相同号段的传真号码。 很快你就会成为该公司最小部门的头头了。

youdao

Or was it a deliberate head fake to make smaller proposals look more reasonable?

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