feign vs tip one's hand

feign

verb
  • To hide or conceal. 

  • To make an action as if doing one thing, but actually doing another, for example to trick an opponent; to feint. 

  • To make a false show or pretence of; to counterfeit or simulate. 

  • To imagine; to invent; to pretend to do something. 

tip one's hand

verb
  • To inadvertently reveal any secret, particularly a secret that puts one at an advantage or disadvantage. 

  • In card playing, to accidentally reveal one's cards or hand. 

How often have the words feign and tip one's hand occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )