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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