play hard to get

[play hard to get] {v. phr.}

To act as if one weren't interested; be fickle; be coy.

* /"Professor Brown is playing very hard to get," our dean said, "but I know he will accept our offer and come to teach here."/

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms


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