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单词 parlor game
释义

parlor game

noun

: a game suitable for playing indoors

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web It’s a natural, admiring reaction to how Brendon Urie has brazenly fashioned the album as almost a parlor game of Spot the Classic-Rock Callback. Chris Willman, Variety, 18 Aug. 2022 Legal disruption is a popular parlor game for industry pundits— when, by whom, and how? Mark A. Cohen, Forbes, 17 Aug. 2022 Ordinarily, sussing out the who-knows-what-and-when of damaging revelations is a Beltway parlor game. Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 26 Apr. 2022 Some readers — especially the few who have read the authors’ other work closely enough to recognize their voices — will experience this challenge as a two-fer: a parlor game within a sizzling assemblage of top-notch literary fiction. Meredith Maran, Los Angeles Times, 27 Jan. 2022 Trying to read between the lines of CEO departure statements is a longstanding parlor game for investors, journalists and academics who study succession, and this time is no different. Jena Mcgregor, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2022 More than an endless parlor game for amateur philosophers, this debate is central to the forthcoming Artificial Intelligence Regulation for the 447 million citizens of the European Union. Joanna J. Bryson, Wired, 2 Mar. 2022 Guessing the identity of the unnamed author became a parlor game that extended well beyond Washington. Washington Post, 22 Feb. 2022 It’s a common parlor game to bemoan our perilous state of local media in the States. Howard Homonoff, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2022 See More

Word History

First Known Use

1854, in the meaning defined above

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