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• A Case Of Identity ( Sherlock Holmes story )
• A Doll's House ( play by Henrik Ibsen )
• A Mars a day helps you work, rest and play ( Mars Chocolate advertising slogan )
• A Streetcar Named Desire ( Marlon Brando movie )
• A funny thing happened on the way to the theatre
• A person is known by the company he keeps
• A symbol of freedom ( Southwest Airlines advertising slogan )
• Address the ball ( golfing term denoting readiness to play )
• All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy
• Alpha and omega ( the first two letters of the Greek alphabet, used as a name for God or Jesus )
• An Ideal Husband ( play by Oscar Wilde )
• Angel Cups ( Nickname of soap character Marcy Rhoades )
• Angels in America ( play by Tony Kushner )

• As naked as nature intended
• Back to nature
• Balance of nature
• Bat Masterson ( Nickname of American western character William Barclay Masterson )
• Beauty contest ( a political contest in which the result is infuenced by personality and image more than by policy )
• Beauty parade ( a political contest in which the result is infuenced by personality and image more than by policy )
• Big data
• Billy Liar ( Novel and play by Keith Waterhouse and Tom Courtenay / Julie Christie movie )
• Boat person
• Brum brum ( child's play idiom expressing the sound of a vehicle )
• Bubbly personality
• Call of nature
• Cat On A Hot Tin Roof ( play by Tennesee Williams and Elizabeth Taylor movie )
• Cat person
• Chain letter
• Character assassination
• Character driven fiction
• Child's play
• Chips With Everything ( Arnold Wesker play )
• Close of play
• Come out and play
• Crime against nature
• Cult of personality
• Data archaeology
• Data cap
• Data dictionary
• Data integrity
• Data mining
• Data warehousing
• Dead letter
• Death is nature's way of telling you to slow down
• Death of a Salesman ( play by Arthur Miller )
• Deep sea data diving
• Desperate Dan ( a cowboy strongman character in the British comic The Dandy )
• Displaced person
• Don't play the innocent
• Evening person
• Everything to play for
• Fair play
• Fair play to you
• First among equals ( the most senior person in a group of equal rank )
• Force of nature
• Four letter word
• French letter
• Fringe theatre
• Games people play
• Go and play in the traffic
• Have you any last requests? ( humorous question asked as though a person was about to be killed )
• He will never play the piano again
• Heavy hitter ( A baseball expression meaning a powerful or commanding person )
• Hedda Gabler ( play by Henrik Ibsen )
• Hold a mirror up to nature
• Horse play
• How does that play in Peoria?
• Human nature
• I took my harp to the party but no one asked me to play
• Identity crisis
• Identity theft
• If music be the food of love, play on ( from Twelth Night by Shakespeare )
• In person
• In play
• In the nature of things
• Individual streak
• It isn't nice to fool mother nature
• It was twenty years ago today Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play ( Beatles song lyric )
• It's good to play together ( Microsoft Xbox advertising slogan )
• It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game
• Juno and the Paycock ( play by Sean O'Casey )
• Kid n' Play ( Nickname of Kevin Martin )
• Lady Windermere's Fan ( play by Oscar Wilde )
• Let nature take its course
• Letter bomb
• Letter for letter
• Letter perfect
• Letter quality
• Live in your world, play in ours ( Sony advertising slogan )
• Long Day's Journey into Night ( play by Eugene O'Neil )
• Love play
• Make a play for
• Make great play of
• Man and Superman ( play by George Bernard Shaw )
• Morning person
• Mother Courage ( play by Bertolt Brecht )
• Mother nature
• Mourning Becomes Electra ( play by Eugene O'Neill )
• Nature abhors a vacuum
• Nature or nurture
• Nature trail
• Nature worship
• Nature, red in tooth and claw
• Not my type ( not a person one is attracted to )
• O Romeo, Romeo; wherefore art thou Romeo ( from the play by Shakespeare )
• Out of character
• People person
• Person of interest
• Person to person
• Play Cupid
• Play God
• Play Misty For Me ( Clint Eastwood movie )
• Play a blinder
• Play a waiting game
• Play around
• Play ball
• Play both ends against the middle
• Play by ear
• Play by play
• Play by the rules
• Play catch up
• Play catchup
• Play chicken
• Play dead
• Play devil's advocate
• Play dirty
• Play ducks and drakes
• Play fast and loose
• Play favorites
• Play favourites
• Play for keeps
• Play for time
• Play from the tips
• Play gooseberry
• Play hard to get
• Play hardball ( A baseball expression meaning to be or act tough or aggressive )
• Play havoc with
• Play hell
• Play hide the sausage
• Play hookey
• Play it again Sam
• Play it again, Sam ( New York State Lottery advertising slogan )
• Play it by the book
• Play it cool
• Play it for laughs
• Play it safe
• Play kissy face
• Play off
• Play possum
• Play safe
• Play second fiddle
• Play silly buggers
• Play softball ( A baseball expression meaning to ask easy questions )
• Play the field ( - indulge in a series of sexual relationships )
• Play the fool
• Play the game
• Play the old soldier
• Play the percentage game
• Play the race card
• Play the white man
• Play to win
• Play with fire
• Play within a play
• Play your cards right
• Play your part
• Play yourself in
• Playboy of the Western World ( play by John Millington Synge )
• Plug and play
• Poison pen letter
• Potty mouth ( a foul mouthed person )
• Raw data
• Red letter day
• Roll over and play dead
• Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead ( play by Tom Stoppard )
• Second nature
• Sex symbol
• She Stoops to Conquer ( play by Oliver Goldsmith )
• Somebody somewhere wants a letter from you ( British Post Office advertising slogan )
• Split personality
• Sword play
• The Admirable Crichton ( Play by J M Barrie and nickname of James Crichton )
• The Boys in the Band ( play by Mart Crowley )
• The Cherry Orchard ( play by Anton Chekhov )
• The Devil's Disciple ( Bernard Shaw play and Burt Lancaster movie )
• The Easter Bunny
• The Famous Five ( characters in Enid Blyton's series of children's book )
• The Ginger Man ( play by JP Donleavy )
• The Glass Menagerie ( play by Tennessee Williams )
• The Iceman Cometh ( play by Eugene O'Neill )
• The Importance of Being Ernest ( play by Oscar Wilde )
• The Mad March Hare
• The Plough and the Stars ( play by Sean O'Casey )
• The Purloined Letter
• The Purloined Letter ( Edgar Allan Poe book )
• The Quare Fellow ( play by Brendan Behan )
• The Scarlet Letter ( Nathaniel Hawthorne story )
• The Scottish play
• The best way of expressing your intelligence ( Zenith Data Systems advertising slogan )
• The laws of nature
• The letter of the law
• The nature of the beast
• The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid ( Jane Austen quotation )
• The play's the thing
• There's only one
• Three letter acronym
• Threepenny Opera ( play by Bertolt Brecht )
• To the letter
• Toilet mouth ( a foul mouthed person )
• Triple play ( A baseball expression denoting the act of making three outs during the same play )
• Two can play at that game
• View from a Bridge ( play by Arthur Miller )
• Waiting for Godot ( play by Samuel Beckett )
• Wardrobe mistress ( a person in charge of the costumes of a theatrical company )
• When the cat's away the mice will play
• Who's Afraid of Virgina Woolf? ( play by Edward Albee )
• You hum it and I'll play it
• Your better nature