mind game 
noun
A course of psychologically manipulative behaviour intended to discomfit another person or gain an advantage over them: I have been playing mind games to get him to invite us...
- I think it's a psychological mind game he's still going for the drivers' title.
- Tonight's State of Origin match between Queensland and New South Wales, for instance, is actually the culmination of a sophisticated mind game that's been going on for three weeks.
- This is not a name-naming game - but is it a mind game?
- get on (or along) like a house on fire
- get on someone's nerves
- get on someone's tits
- get on someone's wick
- get on to
- get on top of
- get (or be) even
- get (or be given) a guernsey
- get (or be given) the gate
- get (or be) in on the act
- get (or be or go) beyond a joke
- get (or be) shot of
- get (or be) spliced
- get (or catch) it in the neck
- get (or give someone) a fair shake
- get (or give someone) ideas
- get (or give someone) the hook
- get (or give someone) the push (or shove)
- get (or go) back to nature
- get (or go) nowhere
- get (or have) a load on
- get (or have) one's ducks in a row
- get (or have) one's end away
- get (or have) one's (own) way
- get (or have or give someone) the hump