| 单词 | to play for safety |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto play for safety e. intransitive. Billiards and Snooker. to play for safety (now usually to play safe): to make a shot that leaves the balls in such a position that one's opponent has difficulty in scoring. Also figurative. Cf. to play safe at sense 17a(d). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > billiards, pool, or snooker > [verb (intransitive)] > actions or types of play carambole1775 string1814 cannon1825 to make a baulk1839 star1839 push1851 to play for safety1857 run1857 carom1860 to knock the balls about1864 miscue1889 snooker1889 break1893 break1893 scratch1909 to call one's shot1953 1857 M. Phelan Game of Billiards (ed. 2) iv. 65 Playing for safety.—When you forego a possible advantage, in order to leave the balls in such a position that your opponent can make nothing out of them. 1873 J. Bennett & ‘Cavendish’ Billiards 386 It is, of course, a matter of judgment, when to play for a score, and when to play for safety. 1884 W. Cook Billiards 12 When a player, instead of playing to score, plays to leave some position in which his opponent will be unable to score in his next stroke, he is said to play for safety. 1930 Engineering 11 July 56/3 Consequently in ‘playing for safety’ in getting the casting through the machine shop the foundryman has tended towards using softer materials which give open and sometimes porous structures in the heavier sections. 1991 Independent on Sunday (Nexis) 10 Feb. 27 The slow-drip treatment continued when Hendry, after a break of 48, played safe leaving White only a fiendishly difficult long red. < as lemmas |
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