I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a band performs/plays
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The band is performing live on Saturday night.
a play area (= a place for children to play )
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There’s a nice play area for the kiddies.
appear in a film/play
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She has already appeared in a number of films.
appear/play/speak at a festival (= perform at a festival )
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Sting is scheduled to appear at a festival in Amsterdam next month.
do/play/have a gig
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The band are doing a gig in Sheffield on Nov 12.
double play
ensure fair play
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rules designed to ensure fair play
fair play
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rules designed to ensure fair play
foul play
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The police said they had no reason to suspect foul play .
learn to play an instrument ( also learn an instrument )
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All students at the school have the opportunity to learn an instrument.
mystery play
Nativity play
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the school’s Nativity play
passion play
perform/play to an audience
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The band played to huge audiences in Mexico City and Buenos Aires.
play a CD
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Shall I play my new CD?
play a character
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I wanted to play the character of Danny.
play a crucial role/part in sth
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Parents play a crucial role in preparing their children for adult life.
play a game
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They explained how to play the game.
play a joke on sb (= trick someone to make people laugh )
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John’s always playing jokes on his brothers.
play a match
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We played the match in heavy rain.
play a melody
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At this point, the flute begins to play the melody.
play a part
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She plays the part of an ageing beauty queen.
play a prominent part/role (in sth)
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Mandela played a prominent role in the early years of the ANC.
play a role
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She was the first actress to play the role of Peter Pan.
play a song (= with singing and musical instruments )
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The band played a lot of their old songs.
play (a) sport
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My ambition was to play sport at the highest level.
play a tune
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He played a tune on the piano.
play an active role in sth
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Do you play an active role in your community?
play an instrument
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Can you play a musical instrument?
play as a team
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One reason for the 49ers’ success is that they play as a team.
play by the rules (= do what is expected and agreed )
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The system works well enough — as long as everyone plays by the rules.
play chess
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Do you want to play chess?
play cricket
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Do you play cricket?
play date
play devil’s advocate
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He would play devil’s advocate with anyone.
play dough
play favorites American English (= treat one person better than others )
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The manager insisted he doesn’t play favorites.
play football
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The boys are playing football in the garden.
play for a team
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He wants to play for a better team.
play golf
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I play golf at the weekends.
play havoc with
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Rain has continued to play havoc with sporting events.
play host (to sth) (= provide the place, food etc for a special meeting or event )
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The gallery is playing host to an exhibition of sculpture.
play in/perform in a concert
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I'm playing in a jazz concert on Saturday night.
play music
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A small band was playing jazz music.
play on sb’s sympathy (= make someone feel sorry for you in order to get an advantage for yourself )
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If that doesn’t work, she knows how to play on his sympathy.
play poker
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Can you play poker ?
play snooker
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They meet up every Friday to play snooker .
play sth on the piano
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We all sang while Mum played something on the piano.
play the market (= risk money on the stock market )
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As soon as she graduated from college, she started to play the market .
play the piano
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Can you play the piano?
play to your strengths (= use people's qualities and abilities in the best way in order to achieve something )
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Both parties are playing to their strengths.
played a leading role
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The army played a leading role in organizing the attempted coup.
played the drums
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Jones played the drums in an all-girl band.
play/have a role
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He played a prominent role in the company’s success.
playing card
playing dumb (= pretending to be stupid )
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‘What is it?’ I asked, playing dumb .
playing field
playing for high stakes
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We’re playing for high stakes here.
playing head games
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He’s obviously playing head games with you.
playing it straight (= being honest )
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I hope, for your sake, you’re playing it straight .
playing live
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The band is playing live in Birmingham tonight.
playing on the swings
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kids playing on the swings
playing singles
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I prefer playing singles .
playing to a full house
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Billy Graham is a speaker who can be sure of playing to a full house .
playing tricks on
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After walking for hours in the hot sun, his mind began playing tricks on him.
playing tricks
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The girls were playing tricks on their teacher.
playing...with...toys
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Annie was playing happily with her toys .
play/perform an essential role in sth
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Antibiotics play an essential role in controlling infection.
play/sing in a band (= be a musician or singer in a band )
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Budd played in a rock band.
play...trump card (= use his advantage )
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But then he decided to play his trump card .
play...venues (= perform at )
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The band will play as many venues as possible.
plug and play
puppet show/theatre/play
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a 20-minute puppet show
ruled out foul play
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Detectives have not ruled out foul play .
sense of fair play
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This kind of behavior violates many people’s sense of fair play .
shoot/play pool
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We went to the pub and played pool.
suspect foul play
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The police said they had no reason to suspect foul play .
suspect murder/foul play
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The position of the body led the police to suspect murder.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
around
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Not that she minded Jack playing around because she knew that one day he would be hers.
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He played around with both boys and girls and he was capable of uncontrolled violence.
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My little girl loves playing around to music.
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Why were men able to play around with any sort of drab?
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It is generally true that PageMaker users find out about some 80-90% of the program's capabilities just by playing around .
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Because of the way my grandfather lived, getting drunk and playing around , his son suffered.
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She encourages customers to play around with samples so they feel they are helping to design their own rooms.
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No one wants to walk around playing the way I did last year.
well
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I agree he plays well enough for Eire tho.
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The Raiders had enough incentive to play well Sunday.
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As for the two principals, they play well if not brilliantly together as the star-crossed lovers.
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The promise of massive tax cuts is a political staple that has always played well in the past.
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From what I saw of the match he played well .
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We played well against them in New York.
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When he was playing well and winning, he still hit diabolical shots that you couldn't believe.
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I expect us to go out and play well .
■ NOUN
ball
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The first option is to play the ball as it lies.
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If she scored high enough, she would come to the university and play ball .
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These are the two accepted ways of playing the rising ball .
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This year, the labor situation is still unsettled, but Dewey is ready to go to Arizona and play ball .
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You may return to where the original stroke was played and, under a one-stroke penalty, play another ball .
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I played rookie ball and Class-A.
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Children were playing and throwing a ball for each other to catch.
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In other words, let somebody else play with the ball occasionally.
band
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In high season the village brass band plays regular concerts and there are waterski displays most weeks.
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Lightning struck twice when the band played the wedding of friend Brian Setzer, the rockabilly guitarist and ex-Stray Cat.
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The soldiers were lined up in the square again, flags waved, the band played the welcoming march.
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The band still plays 100 concerts a year.
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When the band started to play again after their break he danced only once with Lily, but twice with Madge.
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Sensing the audience craving for that golden era, the band played it up.
card
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Oh, no - she knew how to play her cards right.
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As a result, they must learn to play their cards differently.
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Berger moved past the men who were playing cards .
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Previously, the company had a reputation of playing its cards close to its chest.
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Mugabe now plays the race card .
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Hardaway has played his final card .
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It is a team game played by picking cards and describing as many entries before the timer runs out.
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He played cards with Mrs Bedwin and listened to stories about her family.
character
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Because she played a character we liked.
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Redford played a character where everything came easy.
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Rex may be the ideal idol to many men but you will have to settle with playing his character in the game.
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What Ullman wants is to play every character in her imagination, at great personal sacrifice.
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According to Robin Williams, who plays Peter, the character has the business world at his mercy.
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Woodard plays this conflicted character at an Emmy / CableACE level.
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He narrates most of the film and his real-life son Guillaume plays his character as a young man.
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Sister Aimee herself-in fetching costume-always played the lead character .
child
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You get the child who plays for safety and draws what he has drawn before.
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If your child enjoys playing with trains, this is a marvelous opportunity to take advantage of that interest.
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The child wants to play with other children.
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If children play on or next to the track, this video warns, they're putting their own lives at risk.
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Some self-absorbed children play elaborate fantasy games by themselves, and one can admire their creativity and imagination.
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When you have some one in pain and a child who wants to play , you have to deal with the pain first.
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Younger children can play the software, but it was not designed for them.
football
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I wondered if any of them had ever played football with Romario.
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He had played football in college and claimed he had an instinct for battle.
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He insisted on returning to his old school, where he passed his exams and regularly plays football .
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Benny, you ever play football ?
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Leeds do play a lot of football , but they hit a long ball as well.
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We want him to play football .
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He played league football at 50.
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They still play attractive football , but there is no end product.
game
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It was a game they played .
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How can we recognize when a game is being played ?
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But of the five games played since her injury, the Ducks have won four.
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It was the first time Yusupov has ever beaten Karpov, and leaves the scores level with three games left to play .
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They have 17 games left to play .
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It was like a trick, a game she had played .
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Book No. 9 came from a game we used to play together when we were kids called Mary Weatherworth.
games
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The Dauphin was showing Henry that he was just a stupid kid who should still be playing games .
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Also, Arias played in 84 games with the Angels last year.
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About twenty or twenty-five guests would assemble at six o'clock, and we would play party games until supper.
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About 2. 7 million households have people who play computer games .
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Had to play games too, and felt dead.
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He treated the piglet tenderly, played games with it, and spoke to it as if to a child.
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I don't care to play out my silly games before the assembled company.
golf
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We used to play golf , but went by the board when he moved.
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But he played splendid golf , which at least kept his fans in good spirits.
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Steve's been playing golf for 18 months now.
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But you just watch Nick Faldo play a round of golf in a Major, no-one does it better.
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By six I was playing golf .
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But for those who take the plunge there is plenty to keep them amused, particularly if they play bowls or golf .
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In those days, hardly anybody around here played golf .
match
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Traditionally traders play farmers in the match , which has no referee and no rules.
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Braking, he thought of matches a child had been playing with, matches spilled from a box.
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Female speaker Don't play with matches and don't play near fires.
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The tragedy was that Rochford played no more than 80 matches for his county.
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Extra Time - Can be played if a cup match is drawn.
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We played the match and won, and just before saying goodbye I said I'd see him at Birkdale.
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You played in that match when I crocked my knee.
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But if Liverpool are playing in a big match , we let them stay up until the end.
music
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It will help if you lie down and have some very soft music playing .
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Fraser and I both studied classical music and revived it playing traditional stuff.
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Inside the music was still playing .
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He has taught himself to paint, to write music , play the flute, to write.
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All the players walk around the room while the music is being played .
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Fortunately, there's usually groovy soul music playing and eye-catching art adorning the walls.
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I threw myself into organising the funeral, picking out the music I wanted played .
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As one might suspect for addicted musicians, music plays a very small role in their lives.
part
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Particular attention is paid to ageism, and the part counselling can play in combating its effects.
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One is the extraordinary part that women have played in the spread of the movement.
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Finally he considers the part education should play .
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In fact, it often appeared that the part men play in some pentecostal churches is more shadow than substance.
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However, computers do have a large part to play in education.
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What part precisely did Leonardo play in developing the human imagination?
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Perhaps this explains the exceptional range of the parts he played .
piano
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He rarely drank, never smoked and played the piano , but not for the purposes of a sing-song.
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Terrasson, who was born in Berlin and grew up in Paris, began playing piano at 5.
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He cycled to the school, and he played the piano .
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She played the piano for an hour every Thursday at a Northeast Austin retirement home.
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Anne was playing the piano , and singing quietly to herself.
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If Tiffani wants to play the piano , he has decided that she will have the lessons.
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Jobim sings or plays piano or guitar on every selection.
role
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Activities include group exercises, role playing and much feedback and discussion.
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The leading role played by Mary at the Crucifixion and Resurrection needs no re-telling.
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It has a positive role to play in an organisation, and that role is particularly emphasised in this chapter.
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Congress still has a big role to play in shaping the missile defence budget.
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Although Napoleon was not much use on this occasion, the full-size skeleton has an important role to play in the future.
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Obviously, sponsors have a very important role to play .
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Wages councils, set up in the early 1900s, have no role to play in the 1990s, ministers argue.
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The article, instead, juxtaposes the practice with the important role played by women in that patriarchal society.
rule
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They were all playing by the same rules .
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No significant playing rules changes are in the works.
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Anyone can do it so long as they are not criminals or kids, and promise to play by the rules .
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They'd played by the rules and made what was often an unpleasant ocean voyage that cost them most of their savings.
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This panto is playing strictly by the rules .
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Jody is not playing by the rules he values.
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All games to be played according to pre-arranged rules .
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Whether the department has to play by the same rules is debatable.
team
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It is a team game played by picking cards and describing as many entries before the timer runs out.
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The eight teams will play a round-robin tournament beginning on July 21, with the top four advancing to single-elimination semifinals.
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As head coach Mike White noted this week, that emphasis has paid off with much improved special teams play .
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Some of the team also had to play a couple of games up on stage.
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He forced team play in his unit.
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I realize our team plays that much better when certain guys get into it.
■ VERB
continue
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Findings show that A-levels continue to play a dominant role in regulating entry to Higher Education.
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I wish they would continue to play at the Forum.
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Manchester United continue to play with fire, losing 2-1 against Anderlecht.
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In the meantime, the two opposing counsels continue to play a role that is unusually public.
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At the Boma Ground stadium children continue to play football.
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You have great teams and then it takes a while to continue to play at a pace that your fans like.
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The same can not be said for Sharp who has continued to play well below anybody else on the team every game.
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Robert Jenkins continues to play left tackle, as Harlow recovers from a nerve problem that affects his hip and back.
start
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He started playing instruments at age 5, imitating his father, who was a proficient multi-instrumentalist.
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If he starts playing with the keys attached to the back of their belts, they push him away.
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One starts playing a harmonica, the others form a circle.
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A string orchestra should have started to play an old-fashioned waltz.
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The girls just started playing for real two weeks ago.
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In one way I regret it, which is a reason why I think I should have started playing professionally later on.
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I started playing blackjack, and I was winning all over the place-won eight hundred on one hand.
want
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The better you get, the more you want to play .
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What Ullman wants is to play every character in her imagination, at great personal sacrifice.
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But von Steinholz wanted to play a waiting game and see where the trail led him.
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Like I said, I always wanted to play here.
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You get the feeling that if he wants to play the hard-assed producer, he can.
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By junior high, she knew she wanted to play college ball.
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You obviously have an interest in the world about you and want to play a part in preserving it.
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The sources have said Johnston definitely needs surgery if he wants to play football again.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a level playing field
act/play the goat
all work and no play (makes Jack a dull boy)
fair play to sb
full-length play/book/film etc
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How to turn a tightly compressed event into a full-length book?
have a part to play (in sth)
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All of us have a part to play.
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But literacy and the written word do have a part to play.
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However, the latter have a part to play from the period of nursery rhymes and finger and other basic-activity games.
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Look and Say does have a part to play.
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Might farm schools have a part to play?
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Models can be useful and have a part to play, if built on a sound theoretical basis.
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Now I think that the woman lawyer has been foregrounded as if the law actually does have a part to play.
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Now, many of the other items are also sound and have a part to play but they could be improved upon.
play (a game of) cat and mouse (with sb)
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For the rest of the hunting season, the saboteurs will play a cat and mouse game with the huntsmen.
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They played cat and mouse with the Bay, now scrambling for the outside, now sneaking back in.
play (merry) hell with sth
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Ace's proximity was playing hell with her hormones.
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Strangulation was all very well, but it played merry hell with the eyeballs.
play Cupid (to someone)
play a part
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He was to go on to play a major part in the success of the new government.
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It is not yet known if weather conditions played a part in the accident.
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Many cases of breast cancer have genetic causes, but environmental substances may also play a part .
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Of course, the pay played some part in my decision to take the job.
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The genius of the two designers has played a big part in the company's recent success.
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They've certainly worked very hard, but luck has played a part too.
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But big-city gangsters also play a part .
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Host factors such as transit time may also play a part .
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Organisation during the visit can play a part .
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Therefore all immunosuppressive factors can play a part .
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This is just an actor playing a part .
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We are delighted that the Victoria Art Gallery can play a part in this.
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With regard to charging at the door, again fear must play part in her behaviour.
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Yet here he was expecting to play a part that would make her hair stand on end.
play cupid
play dirty
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I hate playing basketball with Bill - he always plays dirty .
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Warren was willing to play dirty in order to get the job.
play fair
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A mystery novel should play fair with the reader, providing all the clues necessary to solve the crime.
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In international trade, very few countries play fair .
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The film company says that it played fair in all its contract dealings with the actors' unions.
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Bates, however, decided yesterday to play fair and own up about his mistress.
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But ideally they should play fair and put their children's interests first.
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But Wilson played fair - she did not encourage him.
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I trust they play fair , but who knows?
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Most also believe it is up to the government to ensure businesses do play fair .
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No one who witnessed these debates has ever suggested that Lewis played fair .
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Yet the private interests themselves were hardly playing fair .
play fetch
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After that, they played fetch with a stick Master found.
play footsie (with sb)
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And, even then, Morris played footsie with prominent Republicans, such as Sen.
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But who will otherwise leave her undisturbed to play footsie with sweet Riva under the very nose of the current ben Issachar.
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Fed up with playing footsie with your missus?
play games (with sb)
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Many taxpayers try to play games on their tax returns.
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We want an agreement. We're not interested in playing games .
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At this Internet chess site, dozens of people around the world are playing games at the same time.
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Do we suspect life is a chessboard even though we know that you don't play games ?
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He plays no budgetary games nor does he tolerate finance people playing games with him.
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If they want to play games with their parachutes, then that is their affair.
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Surveys show millions of workers use their office computers to play games , surf the Net or worse.
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That's just me playing games .
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The people played games to pass the time during the winter too.
play hardball
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It is clear that the company is ready to play hardball with the unions.
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The Deputy Prime Minister told reporters that Canada was ready to play hardball with the US.
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Toymaker Mattel is getting ready to play hardball in an effort to persuade Hasbro to reconsider a merger.
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PITTSBURGHThe Steelers and Pirates found out voters can play hardball , too.
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This is playing hardball , but it is hardball of a sort familiar in these dealings.
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Well, we can play hardball , too.
play hooky
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A boy playing hooky in Texas is not a criminal who is put away for study.
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Abraham and MacGregor begin tasting that delicious sense of playing hooky from life, just like two big, naughty kids.
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Maricela Roman will never forget the day her own 4-year-old ratted on her when she tried to play hooky .
play it cool
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Traci insists that she is going to play it cool with Brad.
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Plus, playing it cool ... the dark secrets of an orchid grower And, who said Robins could sing?
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Rather than rushing into print in Nature, however, Cantor played it cool and cautious.
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She was trying to play it cool .
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The band had wanted a major deal for at least two years previously, but were determined to play it cool .
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Tod's playing it cool , of course, as always.
play possum
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Glover eased back in his chair and played possum .
play rough
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And the Sabres were determined to play rough .
play sth by ear
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As he has no political party that can provide him with practical support, he is forced to play it by ear .
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At 2, he played the piano by ear .
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But the government is having to play it by ear .
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He heard jazz records at home when very young and played piano by ear .
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So each played it by ear , with resulting policy shifts that often appeared to be not only sudden but incomprehensible.
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Well, she would play it by ear .
play to the gallery
play truant
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Billy was caught playing truant and has been given extra homework for a month.#
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He'd played hooky again and ridden the train out to Brooklyn.#
play your cards right
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If you play your cards right, you might get them to reduce the price.
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Oh, no - she knew how to play her cards right.
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The domino effect can work for us as well as against us if we play our cards right.
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This could all turn out for the best if he played his cards right.
play/act the fool
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Don't play the fool with me. You know why I moved away.
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But the trouble with the picture is that it does absolutely nothing with its various prognostications except play the fool with them.
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Dominic and Lee had been playing the fool as only young men can.
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Don't go acting the fool , Carl.
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He acted the fool , losing at first to whet their appetites, but in an hour emptied his three victims' purses.
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He likes me to play the fool .
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In class he never played the fool , never challenged the teacher.
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Narouz had been angry, first with the girl for playing the fool and then with the eunuch for not finding her.
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Those on the path of mastery are willing to take chances, play the fool ....
play/keep your cards close to your chest
play/star/appear etc opposite sb
sb's memory is playing tricks on them
sth is child's play
take/have/play no part in sth
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Herrera, personally, took no part in this mild form of political persecution.
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Johnny played no part in this world.
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Of course, Laura took no part in such a major business decision; the empire builder was Bernard.
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Schuster insists his political connections played no part in the choice.
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The mostly white jurors who actually sat in the jury room, insisted that race had played no part in their decision.
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The very act of imagining Gods exempt from suffering ensures that humans take no part in the deity.
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They are evaluated and yet play no part in defining the criteria, determining the methods, or controlling the process.
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This is not to say that economic imperatives play no part in penal developments.
the state of play
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I can't comment on the state of play in the negotiations.
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Depends, of course, on the state of play.
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Gerry, what's the state of play?
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Let me remind you of the state of play at that time.
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That's the state of play in Milton Keynes where Labour lost four seats, and control.
turnabout is fair play
two can play at that game
violent film/play/drama
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He thought of hitting Guy, saw himself doing it, like some violent film, slow-motion.
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His nose was broken in two places by a player he had sent off for violent play.
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They have a violent film then they have a violent advert.
well done!/well played!
when the cat's away (the mice will play)
work/play etc your butt off
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He took a beating today but he played his butt off.
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I had to give the ball up, and then I had work my butt off to get it back.
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I work my butt off for you, while that restaurant is doing worse and worse.
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I worked my butt off in basketball and stayed on the varsity-in fact, did well.
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In short, I worked my butt off.
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Meanwhile, Inspiral Carpets went in at grass roots level and worked their butts off in the clubs.
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You could have worked your butt off helping a rep and you finally got the rep doing everything right.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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"They played well against us," Cooper said, "I have to give them credit."
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Ask Alex if he wants to play .
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Charles likes to play Celtic music on his flute.
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Come on - let's go inside and play house!
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Did you ever play doctors and nurses when you were small?
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Do you play in an orchestra?
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Do you know how to play backgammon?
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Every Sunday we play Monopoly or some other board game.
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I'm playing in a tennis match this Sunday.
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I've only played chess a few times.
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I played the ace of clubs and won the game.
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I didn't know you could play the violin.
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I have a recording of Kreisler playing Bach's E major concerto.
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I used to play tennis all the time.
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Ian was upstairs playing with his new train set.
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It's been a long time since I played hockey.
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Jimmy was playing with a little boat in the bathtub.
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Karl loves basketball and plays almost every weekend.
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Kendra's in her room playing.
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Matt plays the drums.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Age-sensitive political issues such as Social Security and Medicare will play a major role in the campaign, of course.
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Blake's composing and playing are, perhaps ironically, bristling with life.
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In the Pittsburgh-Bills game, I have to like the way Buffalo is playing.
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Relaxing music is played at the beginning of the float and again at the end to indicate your time is up.
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She tried to teach him how to play the piano, but he had no great talent for it.
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The neck feels solid and moderately chubby, although not immediately reminiscent of anything I've played before.
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Your child can play all three goats and you the troll if there are just the two of you.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
big
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Mills makes big plays and is a very good runner after the catch.
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Consequently, our club got a big play from any and all officer personnel on the base camp.
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Except for one breakdown, San Diego refused to give up big plays , the Raiders' trademark so far.
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He kept telling Johnson he was going to make big plays and score the winning shot.
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He has made big plays at very important times.
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The strategy stole the big play away from the Raiders, turning them into a ball-control team.
fair
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Only in a secure Britain can we break down barriers and give people a real sense of fair play .
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There are still people out there who teach and practice fair play , sportsmanship, and competition.
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As a nation we pride ourselves on our strong sense of sportsmanship and fair play .
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Aladdin was very good-natured and had a sense of fair play .
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It was fair play , wasn't it, my lad, absolutely fair play.
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In fact, the Globe favored public ownership but believed in fair play for the private interests.
great
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The Minister made great play of environmental issues.
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He had no idea what he was doing or why, but he made a great play anyway.
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Sometimes, you make the great plays .
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Spittals made great play of tapping the microphones and checking that they worked before he introduced the superintendent.
new
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They had just one minute to pull us into a new reality and a new play .
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But he became as well known for his work in new plays as for his Shakespeare.
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She has no strategy to share, no new plays to run.
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She had little or no reputation for doing the new plays then in vogue.
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Well before it closed, Alvin was involved in rehearsals for two new plays .
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The King's Men had to have a new play for a special day like that.
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But the jitters and anxieties usually associated with a starring role in a new play are nowhere to be seen.
■ NOUN
area
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Outside, there is a pool and children's play area .
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Nets encase the play area for safety.
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There's Sunsplash centre and the separate Oasis pool, both with shallow play areas .
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The Devon Coast Holiday Park enjoys sea views and has a small children's play area .
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Farm walks, picnic and play area , barn cafe and shop, teaching room.
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Beautiful parkland with avenues and lakes; picnic area; gift shop; woodland play area .
nativity
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At his first school, Stockwell Junior School, David dressed up for the first time in a school nativity play .
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Recently he went to his children's school nativity play .
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Already there are plans to put on nativity plays and join local children at a carol service.
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This time he was putting his heart into playing an angel in a Nativity play at the local church.
power
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It was a power play but it worked.
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He has really helped out our power play .
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Systems of knowledge, or anything else, are actually a power play , according to deconstructionists.
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She didn't need that kind of rich man's power play and didn't appreciate it one bit.
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Boston cut the deficit to 3-1 when right wing Sandy Moger scored on the power play for his sixth goal.
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A romantic comedy, or power play , is enacted above.
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Ray Sheppard scored what proved to be the game-winning goal on the power play at 11: 05 of the third period.
role
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Discussion should take place regarding the learning methods, i.e. practical work, discussions, role play , tutorials and individual study.
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Then role play that scene with others from the group.
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We'd done this lots of times, role play , in Soc.
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Alter each role play , have group members provide feedback on what the person did well and what aspects need improvement.
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Then the role play can be pursued as in any of 1 to 3 above.
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Units comprise discussion, reading, role play , writing assignment, vocabulary building, practice in points of grammar.
school
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From childish disappointment when Anne's parents forget to attend the school play , to the adolescent discoveries in the town park.
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So, I was enrolled in the Royal Academy, and got the lead in the school play .
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The three wise men became three wise people in the school play - one of them a woman.
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I did a drugs awareness sketch and got a small part in the school play which was Twelfth Night.
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Once a year I attended the school play .
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Introductions and commentaries by children on videos of school plays are also very effective.
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If there is a school play try to appropriate as many costumes as possible at the end of it.
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Rugby was played vigorously, music flourished, the school plays were of high quality.
■ VERB
bring
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In so doing, this overrides the channel selector, bringing both channels into play at once.
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Or could that most newly discovered of all scientific miracles, electricity, be brought into play ?
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Indeed, it is not surprising that a member of this particular grammatical category should have been brought into play here.
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Successive rounds of screening bring into play more criteria until the short list is reached.
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Interrelated as these four issues undoubtedly are, they do each bring into play independent considerations.
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It may have the means, but be unwilling or unable to bring them into play at a particular time.
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Compression of this sort, practised more widely, might succeed in bringing the play over into a new medium.
come
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But that's easier said than done when financial factors come into play .
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Fourth, if speculators bet that the above factors will come into play .
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But, in the privacy of the polling booth, cooler and more hard-headed calculations came into play .
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Only after that does cost come into play in deciding whom to protect and at what level.
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Judicial review may also come into play in the potentially fraught area of contracted-out services.
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Mubsan is a legal concept; it comes into play in cases of adultery, where it can increase the penalty.
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Here we see Bukharin's concept of equilibrium coming into play .
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All of these things have come into play .
make
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Kramer wondered if she was worth making a play for.
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The Sonics, not the Rockets, have made the necessary plays for victory.
perform
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Now, some children are performing plays with very different themes.
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By his retirement in 1955 he had performed in over 200 plays .
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There was a youth group being set up to perform a play which was about teenage gay men and lesbians and their experiences.
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I got involved in that so that by mid-1977 I was performing in a play which was actually saying that I was gay.
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If you think your acting is good enough, perform the play for your Pack.
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The performed plays , and the acting, were in conscious competition for prizes.
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The craftsmen of the local Guilds had been performing a play on the Feast of Corpus Christi for eighty years.
write
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For the moment, he obviously has more urgent tasks than writing plays .
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This beautifully written play is about universal human longing for love and happiness.
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Will you write me another play ?
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He had written a few plays in his early twenties; one of them had been produced off-off Broadway to good reviews.
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He's written plays for Radio Four and Channel Four.
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Previous studies Hamilton says that whoever wrote the will also wrote the play .
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They are probably going to write another play based on my suggestions.
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Look, writing for films is different than writing plays .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(play) a/the waiting game
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Although most people were relieved that the waiting game was over, the first days and nights were nerve-racking.
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But von Steinholz wanted to play a waiting game and see where the trail led him.
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Friday, and volunteer fireman Dave Papenfuss said it was purely a waiting game after that.
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It was a waiting game now, she thought anxiously.
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Lucy only wished that she could have more of the patience required to play a waiting game.
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She had played a waiting game with great skill in the 1540s.
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The Danley strike, like many others, was a waiting game and a numbers game.
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Unfortunately, with work inhibition, the waiting game only ensures future problems.
a level playing field
all work and no play (makes Jack a dull boy)
fair play to sb
full-length play/book/film etc
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How to turn a tightly compressed event into a full-length book?
have a part to play (in sth)
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All of us have a part to play.
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But literacy and the written word do have a part to play.
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However, the latter have a part to play from the period of nursery rhymes and finger and other basic-activity games.
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Look and Say does have a part to play.
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Might farm schools have a part to play?
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Models can be useful and have a part to play, if built on a sound theoretical basis.
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Now I think that the woman lawyer has been foregrounded as if the law actually does have a part to play.
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Now, many of the other items are also sound and have a part to play but they could be improved upon.
level the playing field
play (a game of) cat and mouse (with sb)
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For the rest of the hunting season, the saboteurs will play a cat and mouse game with the huntsmen.
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They played cat and mouse with the Bay, now scrambling for the outside, now sneaking back in.
play (merry) hell with sth
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Ace's proximity was playing hell with her hormones.
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Strangulation was all very well, but it played merry hell with the eyeballs.
play Cupid (to someone)
play cupid
play dirty
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I hate playing basketball with Bill - he always plays dirty .
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Warren was willing to play dirty in order to get the job.
play fair
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A mystery novel should play fair with the reader, providing all the clues necessary to solve the crime.
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In international trade, very few countries play fair .
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The film company says that it played fair in all its contract dealings with the actors' unions.
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Bates, however, decided yesterday to play fair and own up about his mistress.
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But ideally they should play fair and put their children's interests first.
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But Wilson played fair - she did not encourage him.
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I trust they play fair , but who knows?
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Most also believe it is up to the government to ensure businesses do play fair .
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No one who witnessed these debates has ever suggested that Lewis played fair .
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Yet the private interests themselves were hardly playing fair .
play fetch
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After that, they played fetch with a stick Master found.
play footsie (with sb)
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And, even then, Morris played footsie with prominent Republicans, such as Sen.
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But who will otherwise leave her undisturbed to play footsie with sweet Riva under the very nose of the current ben Issachar.
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Fed up with playing footsie with your missus?
play games (with sb)
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Many taxpayers try to play games on their tax returns.
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We want an agreement. We're not interested in playing games .
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At this Internet chess site, dozens of people around the world are playing games at the same time.
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Do we suspect life is a chessboard even though we know that you don't play games ?
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He plays no budgetary games nor does he tolerate finance people playing games with him.
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If they want to play games with their parachutes, then that is their affair.
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Surveys show millions of workers use their office computers to play games , surf the Net or worse.
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That's just me playing games .
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The people played games to pass the time during the winter too.
play hardball
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It is clear that the company is ready to play hardball with the unions.
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The Deputy Prime Minister told reporters that Canada was ready to play hardball with the US.
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Toymaker Mattel is getting ready to play hardball in an effort to persuade Hasbro to reconsider a merger.
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PITTSBURGHThe Steelers and Pirates found out voters can play hardball , too.
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This is playing hardball , but it is hardball of a sort familiar in these dealings.
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Well, we can play hardball , too.
play hooky
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A boy playing hooky in Texas is not a criminal who is put away for study.
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Abraham and MacGregor begin tasting that delicious sense of playing hooky from life, just like two big, naughty kids.
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Maricela Roman will never forget the day her own 4-year-old ratted on her when she tried to play hooky .
play it cool
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Traci insists that she is going to play it cool with Brad.
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Plus, playing it cool ... the dark secrets of an orchid grower And, who said Robins could sing?
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Rather than rushing into print in Nature, however, Cantor played it cool and cautious.
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She was trying to play it cool .
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The band had wanted a major deal for at least two years previously, but were determined to play it cool .
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Tod's playing it cool , of course, as always.
play possum
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Glover eased back in his chair and played possum .
play rough
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And the Sabres were determined to play rough .
play sth by ear
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As he has no political party that can provide him with practical support, he is forced to play it by ear .
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At 2, he played the piano by ear .
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But the government is having to play it by ear .
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He heard jazz records at home when very young and played piano by ear .
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So each played it by ear , with resulting policy shifts that often appeared to be not only sudden but incomprehensible.
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Well, she would play it by ear .
play to the gallery
play truant
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Billy was caught playing truant and has been given extra homework for a month.#
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He'd played hooky again and ridden the train out to Brooklyn.#
play your cards right
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If you play your cards right, you might get them to reduce the price.
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Oh, no - she knew how to play her cards right.
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The domino effect can work for us as well as against us if we play our cards right.
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This could all turn out for the best if he played his cards right.
play/act the fool
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Don't play the fool with me. You know why I moved away.
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But the trouble with the picture is that it does absolutely nothing with its various prognostications except play the fool with them.
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Dominic and Lee had been playing the fool as only young men can.
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Don't go acting the fool , Carl.
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He acted the fool , losing at first to whet their appetites, but in an hour emptied his three victims' purses.
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He likes me to play the fool .
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In class he never played the fool , never challenged the teacher.
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Narouz had been angry, first with the girl for playing the fool and then with the eunuch for not finding her.
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Those on the path of mastery are willing to take chances, play the fool ....
play/keep your cards close to your chest
play/star/appear etc opposite sb
sth is child's play
take/have/play no part in sth
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Herrera, personally, took no part in this mild form of political persecution.
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Johnny played no part in this world.
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Of course, Laura took no part in such a major business decision; the empire builder was Bernard.
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Schuster insists his political connections played no part in the choice.
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The mostly white jurors who actually sat in the jury room, insisted that race had played no part in their decision.
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The very act of imagining Gods exempt from suffering ensures that humans take no part in the deity.
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They are evaluated and yet play no part in defining the criteria, determining the methods, or controlling the process.
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This is not to say that economic imperatives play no part in penal developments.
the state of play
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I can't comment on the state of play in the negotiations.
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Depends, of course, on the state of play.
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Gerry, what's the state of play?
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Let me remind you of the state of play at that time.
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That's the state of play in Milton Keynes where Labour lost four seats, and control.
turnabout is fair play
two can play at that game
violent film/play/drama
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He thought of hitting Guy, saw himself doing it, like some violent film, slow-motion.
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His nose was broken in two places by a player he had sent off for violent play.
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They have a violent film then they have a violent advert.
well done!/well played!
when the cat's away (the mice will play)
work/play etc your butt off
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He took a beating today but he played his butt off.
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I had to give the ball up, and then I had work my butt off to get it back.
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I work my butt off for you, while that restaurant is doing worse and worse.
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I worked my butt off in basketball and stayed on the varsity-in fact, did well.
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In short, I worked my butt off.
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Meanwhile, Inspiral Carpets went in at grass roots level and worked their butts off in the clubs.
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You could have worked your butt off helping a rep and you finally got the rep doing everything right.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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"Pygmalion" was one of Shaw's most famous plays.
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On the next play , Ervin caught a forty-yard pass to score a touchdown.
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Parents need to understand the importance of play in a child's development.
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The play is about two men on trial for murder.
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There's a huge difference in the level of play from college to the NFL.
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There needs to be a little more play in the fan belt for it to work right.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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After Troilus and Cressida almost any play is a relief, even the brothel scenes of Pericles.
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Episodes are based on dialogues, role play and cloze exercises, with the emphasis on building awareness of language appropriateness.
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He chose to do this by re-writing the scene in the form of a script for a play .
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His doubts only increased when he performed another job, midway to finally making up his mind about the Bolt play .
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Make enough plays like that and nobody in the clubhouse will care if you ever say a word.
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These characters can be used to start play very quickly, saving time for eager players!
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This brings into play an area of training known as free sparring.