Deceptive behaviour of bogus prelates breaking barriers (5,9)
I believe the answer is:
false pretences
'deceptive behaviour of bogus' is the definition.
I can't judge whether this defines the answer.
'prelates breaking barriers' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
an anagram of 'prelates' is 'alsepret' which is located in the answer.
'barriers' could be 'fences' (fence is a kind of barrier) and 'fences' is located in the remaining letters.
This accounts for all the letters.
This explanation may well be incorrect...
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for false pretences that I've seen before include "fraud" , "Behaviour intended to deceive" , "deception" .)