What does hacerse el tonto / la tonta mean?

ExpressionColoquial

to play dumb

Pretending not to understand, or not to know what someone is talking about. The construction hacerse el/la + noun always means pretending: hacerse el sueco, hacerse la loca, hacerse la víctima.

No te hagas el tonto, que me lo prometiste.
Nobody is buying the innocent face.

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