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Play Phrases

406 phrases and expressions related to "play".

Phrases

  • A Doll's House (play by Henrik Ibsen)
  • A Mars a day helps you work, rest and play (Mars Chocolate advertising slogan)
  • A Night At The Opera (Marx Brothers movie)
  • A Streetcar Named Desire (Marlon Brando movie)
  • A class act
  • Act of God
  • Act out
  • Act the fool
  • Act the giddy goat
  • Act the part
  • Act up
  • Act white
  • Act your age
  • Action replay
  • Address the ball (golfing term denoting readiness to play)
  • All Fun And Games Until Somebody Loses An Eye (Christopher Brookmyer book)
  • All the fun of the fair
  • All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players
  • All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy
  • All's Well, That Ends Well
  • An Ideal Husband (play by Oscar Wilde)
  • And The Band Played On (Randy Shilts book)
  • And the band played on
  • Angel Cups (Nickname of soap character Marcy Rhoades)
  • Angels in America (play by Tony Kushner)
  • Architecture is music frozen in time (Friedrich von Schelling quotation)
  • As playful as a kitten
  • Balancing act
  • Bat Masterson (Nickname of American western character William Barclay Masterson)
  • Be a good sport
  • Billy Liar (Novel and play by Keith Waterhouse and Tom Courtenay / Julie Christie movie)
  • Blondes have more fun
  • Blow off the stage
  • Break a leg
  • Bring your A game (perform to your best ability)
  • Brum brum (child's play idiom expressing the sound of a vehicle)
  • Bugger about
  • Bundle of fun
  • Buy Opera today And make this banner go away (Opera advertising slogan)
  • Buy a bucket of chicken and have a barrel of fun (Kentucky Fried Chicken advertising slogan)
  • Call of Duty (video game title)
  • Cat On A Hot Tin Roof (play by Tennesee Williams and Elizabeth Taylor movie)
  • Caught in the act
  • Character assassination
  • Character driven fiction
  • Chicago piano
  • Child's play
  • Childhood friend
  • Childhood memories
  • Childhood sweetheart
  • Children, one is one, two is fun, three is a house full
  • Chips With Everything (Arnold Wesker play)
  • Class act
  • Clean up your act
  • Close of play
  • Come out and play
  • Contact sport
  • Couldn't act his way out of a paper bag
  • Death of a Salesman (play by Arthur Miller)
  • Desperate Dan (a cowboy strongman character in the British comic The Dandy)
  • Desperate Housewives (2004 comedy drama television series)
  • Dick around
  • Do a disappearing act
  • Do you know the piano's on my foot?
  • Don't play the innocent
  • Don't put your daughter on the stage Mrs Worthington
  • Don't shoot the piano player
  • Double act
  • Double your pleasure, double your fun (Wrigley's Doublemint Chewing Gum advertising slogan)
  • Drama documentary
  • Ear for music
  • Elevator music
  • Everything to play for
  • Exit stage left
  • Face the music
  • Fair play
  • Fair play to you
  • Follow suit
  • Food, Folks and Fun (McDonald's advertising slogan)
  • Fool around
  • Foot in the bucket (A baseball expression meaning to act timidly or cowardly)
  • Fun Fun Fun (The Beach Boys song)
  • Fun With Dick And Jane (Jane Fonda movie)
  • Fun and games
  • Games people play
  • Get in on the act
  • Get your act together
  • Getting there is half the fun (Cunard Line advertising slogan)
  • Girls Just Want To Have Fun (Cyndi Lauper song)
  • Go and play in the traffic
  • Good clean fun
  • Good sport
  • Goof around
  • Goof off
  • Grand Theft Auto (video game title)
  • Half the fun is getting there (Olympic Airways advertising slogan)
  • Hard act to follow
  • Have fun
  • He will never play the piano again
  • Hedda Gabler (play by Henrik Ibsen)
  • High tragedy
  • High wire act
  • Horse around
  • Horse play
  • Horsing around
  • House music
  • How does that play in Peoria?
  • Human Rights Act
  • I Do Like To Be Beside The Seaside (British Music Hall song)
  • 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 on the act
  • In play
  • Instant replay
  • It was twenty years ago today Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play (Beatles song lyric)
  • It's all fun and games until somebody gets hurt
  • It's all good clean fun
  • 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
  • Jerk around
  • Juno and the Paycock (play by Sean O'Casey)
  • Kid n' Play (Nickname of Kevin Martin)
  • Kidding around
  • Kitchen sink drama
  • Lady Windermere's Fan (play by Oscar Wilde)
  • Lark about
  • Let's face the music and dance
  • Level playing field
  • Live in your world, play in ours (Sony advertising slogan)
  • Long Day's Journey into Night (play by Eugene O'Neil)
  • Love play
  • Make Your Own Kind Of Music (Mama Cass Elliot song)
  • Make a play for
  • Make fun of
  • Make great play of
  • Man and Superman (play by George Bernard Shaw)
  • Mario Kart (video game title)
  • Mendoza line (A baseball expression denoting a line marking a very poor performance)
  • Mess around
  • Monkey around
  • Mother Courage (play by Bertolt Brecht)
  • Mourning Becomes Electra (play by Eugene O'Neill)
  • Muck about
  • Music Box (Mariah Carey album)
  • Music City (Nickname of Nashville Tennessee)
  • Music has charms to soothe the savage breast
  • Music is art. Muzak is science (Muzak Corporation advertising slogan)
  • Music to my ears
  • No music, no life (Tower Records advertising slogan)
  • Not playing with a full deck
  • O Romeo, Romeo; wherefore art thou Romeo (from the play by Shakespeare)
  • Oh, what fun
  • Opening night (the first night of a theatrical performance)
  • Out of character
  • Peak performance
  • Phone it in (perform an act in an uncommitted disinterested manner)
  • 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)
  • Played for a fool
  • Playing to the gallery
  • Plug and play
  • Poke fun
  • Popular music
  • Put on an act
  • Put the fun back into driving (Vauxhall Motors advertising slogan)
  • Quality time
  • Race against the clock
  • Race proven performance (Kumho Tires advertising slogan)
  • Random act of kindness
  • Read the riot act
  • Roll over and play dead
  • Roll up, roll up, all the fun of the fair
  • Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (play by Tom Stoppard)
  • Rough and tumble
  • Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
  • School for scandal
  • Second childhood
  • Set the stage
  • She Stoops to Conquer (play by Oliver Goldsmith)
  • Sister Act (Whoopie Goldberg movie)
  • Some Nights (fun song)
  • Sonic the Hedgehog (video game title)
  • Stage door Johnny
  • Star of stage and screen
  • Strike up the band
  • Super Mario Brothers (video game title)
  • Sweet Music (Nickname of Frank Viola)
  • Sword play
  • Sydney Opera House (tourist attraction in Australia)
  • Take centre stage
  • Thank you for the music, the songs I'm singing (ABBA lyric)
  • The Admirable Crichton (Play by J M Barrie and nickname of James Crichton)
  • The Beggar's Opera
  • The Boys in the Band (play by Mart Crowley)
  • The Buddha of Suburbia
  • 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 Sims (video game title)
  • The Sound Of Music (Julie Andrews movie)
  • The West Coast Sound (name applied to Californian pop music, especially that of The Beach Boys)
  • The act you've known for all these years (Beatles song lyric)
  • The ball is in your court
  • The best way to get music out of your system (Philips advertising slogan)
  • The cat who doesn't act finicky soon loses control of his owner (9 Lives Cat Food advertising slogan)
  • The fun develops instantly (Polaroid advertising slogan)
  • The greatest tragedy is indifference (Red Cross advertising slogan)
  • The little dog laughed to see such fun
  • The music of the spheres
  • The play's the thing
  • The sport of kings
  • The stage is set
  • There's many a good tune played on an old fiddle
  • There's many a good tune played on an old piano
  • Think global, act local
  • Think globally, act locally (Friends of the Earth advertising slogan)
  • Threepenny Opera (play by Bertolt Brecht)
  • Time flies when you are having fun

Related

  • 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