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let on verb phrase To divulge, disclose, betray.

c1844 Beckner Shane Interview 229 It was [the] Sabbath and I never let on or told a word of it. 1886 Smith Sthn Dialect 349 They all have the authority of old or dialect English, or many of them belong to all parts of the South, if not elsewhere ... let on (as “I never let on"). 1901 Harben Westerfelt 11 I was afeerd, though I couldn't let on at the time. 1939 Hall Coll  (Copeland Creek TN) I passed on up, and the last one I was aiming to trot on and not let on like I saw them. 1956 McAtee Some Dial NC 27 They were talking about me but I never let on that I heard them. 1989 Giardina Storming Heaven 9 I got riled when he said that, though I never let on, I tried to tell myself that nothing was changed, except that my papaw was gone. 2012 Jourdan Medicine Men 148 I never let on to the kids that I was worried.