| 单词 | to play the angles |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto play the angles f. North American colloquial. to play the angles and variants: to use every available means to achieve an end; cf. play v. 20d. ΚΠ 1933 Fresno (California) Bee 12 Feb. 1 c/3 Jack Kearn plays his angles. 1977 Washington Post (Nexis) 27 Mar. 14 He is a man who plays the angles, looks for the gimmick. 1987 I. Sinclair White Chappell Scarlet Tracings iii. 33 His words ignored by the other workmen, busy notching up the overtime, playing the angles. 2005 New Yorker 26 Sept. 158/2 His father posed as a Jew to gain asylum in the United States, and Yuri, playing the angles, uses that identity when it suits him. < as lemmas |
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