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>A list of phrases containing the word "play"...
A list of phrases containing the word "play"...
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 )
Address the ball ( golfing term denoting readiness to play )
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy
An Ideal Husband ( play by Oscar Wilde )
Angels in America ( play by Tony Kushner )
Billy Liar ( Novel and play by Keith Waterhouse and Tom Courtenay / Julie Christie movie )
Brum brum ( child's play idiom expressing the sound of a vehicle )
Cat On A Hot Tin Roof ( play by Tennesee Williams and Elizabeth Taylor movie )
Child's play
Chips With Everything ( Arnold Wesker play )
Close of play
Come out and play
Death of a Salesman ( play by Arthur Miller )
Don't play the innocent
Everything to play for
Fair play
Fair play to you
Games people play
Go and play in the traffic
He will never play the piano again
Hedda Gabler ( play by Henrik Ibsen )
Horse play
How does that play in Peoria?
I took my harp to the party but no one asked me to play
If music be the food of love, play on ( from Twelth Night by Shakespeare )
In play
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 )
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 )
Mother Courage ( play by Bertolt Brecht )
Mourning Becomes Electra ( play by Eugene O'Neill )
O Romeo, Romeo; wherefore art thou Romeo ( from the play by Shakespeare )
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
Roll over and play dead
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead ( play by Tom Stoppard )
She Stoops to Conquer ( play by Oliver Goldsmith )
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 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 Plough and the Stars ( play by Sean O'Casey )
The Quare Fellow ( play by Brendan Behan )
The Scottish play
The play's the thing
Threepenny Opera ( play by Bertolt Brecht )
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 )
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
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