fake it

idiom

informal

: to pretend to be something that one is not or to have some knowledge or ability that one does not really have

He acts like he's my friend, but I can tell that he's just faking it.

He didn't know the words to the song, so he had to fake it.

Examples of fake it in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

For now, the accent remains one of the last places Hollywood can’t fake it — and one of the few where audiences still demand the real thing. —Remy Blumenfeld, HollywoodReporter, 13 Oct. 2025

In that gap, people 'fake it' to appear modern, efficient, and competitive. —Suzanne Blake, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Aug. 2025

People know when your effort is performative, don’t fake it. —Dr. Shaheena Janjuha-Jivraj, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025

If the leaders aren’t thrilled, don’t force anyone to fake it! —Expert Panel®, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2025

But there are some easy ways to fake it and create that real tree smell without the real tree hassle. —Cody Godwin, USA TODAY, 11 Dec. 2024

Meta has a suggestion for folks like me who forgot to go outside and look at the Northern Lights on Thursday night: just use AI to fake it! —Wes Davis, The Verge, 12 Oct. 2024

Rhymes for fake it

• candlelit
• counterfeit
• hypocrite
• monazite
• resubmit
• retrofit
• acquit
• admit
• amrit
• armpit
• backlit
• befit