Not necessarily. A charade is an act of deception, pretending to be something it isn’t - but with the aim of deceiving.
Prorogue! Never heard the term before but its a real term https://www.thefreedictionary.com/prorogue p.s. Saint, are you an AI?
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Usually it is “hold somebody by the balls” and it doesn’t mean threaten, instead it means to have almost complete control of someone in a situation that they would probably do anything you wanted (within context).
Indeed that it is what it does mean, I think. And often abbreviated simply to “M.O.” - as in “his MO was to get in to the office at 7:00am, while it was still quiet...” etc.