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The lie your body tells while your face insists it's candid.
means To arrange your body or expression in a deliberate, often artificial way for effect — or, more broadly, to present yourself as something you're not.
from From French poser, 'to place or put,' which traces back to Latin pausare, 'to pause, to stop.' The twist is that it got tangled up with Latin ponere, 'to place' — so thoroughly that pose inherited ponere's meaning while keeping pausare's body. Linguists now treat this confusion as settled fact rather than error: the word that means 'to strike a position' literally came from 'to stop,' by way of a mix-up nobody ever corrected.
- origin
- from Old French poser, to place or rest
- photography tell
- shoulders angled beats shoulders square, every time
- etymology twist
- unrelated to Latin ponere despite looking identical
- power move
- holding one for two seconds reads as confidence