プログレッシブ和英中辞典(第３版)の解説
そらとぼける【空×惚ける】
feign ignorance; pretend not to know
- 警官の尋問に対して彼女は息子の居所は知らないと空とぼけた
In answer to the policeman's questions, she pretended to have no knowledge of her son's whereabouts. - 彼は落ち着いて空とぼけてみせた
He had the presence of mind to look as if he knew nothing about it.