Don't think he's going to roll over and play dead next time.
A face full of that stuff would have anything rolling over and playing dead.
Do you want to know why I lay there, playing dead?
At least he wouldn't roll over and play dead for her.
It was almost as if he had expected her to roll over and play dead.
And that did not at all look like the picture of a country playing dead.
I am not going to roll over and play dead.
But I'm not going to roll over and play dead.
Another thing they use for defending themselves is playing dead.
Now just how long do you suppose we've got to play dead?
Idiomy