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单词 to play the —— game
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to play the —— game
b. transitive. to play ——'s game: to choose one's actions in a way which is agreeable to the interests of ——, rather than (necessarily) oneself; to act (intentionally or unintentionally) in such a way as to be helpful to ——'s plans. Also to play the —— game, to play the game of.
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1657 R. Baxter One Sheet for Ministry §7. 4 It is apparent that these enemies of the Ministers, are playing the Papists game.
1742 Hist. & Proc. House of Lords VI. 94 Our going on in the same Measures we have done for some time past, will be playing the Pretender's Game for him.
1789 Ann. Reg. 1787 Hist. Europe 119/2 It would be his interest to play the game of the dissenters against the established church.
1808 Sir J. Moore Let. to Marq. Romana 23 Dec. in J. Moore Narr. Campaign (1809) 164 It is playing the Enemy's game to draw him to attack our armies in rotation.
1849 G. Grote Hist. Greece VI. ii. l. 380 A selfish oligarchical party, playing the game of a foreign enemy.
1893 Leeds Mercury 11 May 4/8 The English Radicals did not see why they should play the Unionist game by voting for Mr. Russell's amendment.
1917 Field 21 Apr. 568/1 We must wait patiently..to get home effectively with little risk to ourselves. To do otherwise would be to play the enemy's game.
1955 D. Eden Darling Clementine (1959) 84 So indirectly she was playing this unknown blackmailer's despicable game to enable Prissie to obtain possession of the things she coveted.
2001 L. Despres Scandalous Summer of Sissy LeBlanc (2002) 51 ‘Why didn't you get the rest of us to beat the shit out of him on the next play?’ Plurb asked... ‘That would be playing his game,’ said Parker. ‘I didn't want to do that.’
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