Recreation Phrases

Phrases

• 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)
• Ahead of the game
• All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy
• All your base are belong to us (broken English phrase used in the video game Zero Wing)
• America's Oldest Living Teenager (Nickname of game show host Dick Clark)
• An Ideal Husband (play by Oscar Wilde)
• Angels in America (play by Tony Kushner)
• Anyone's game
• As game as Ned Kelly
• Be a good sport
• Beaten at your own game
• Big Game James (Nickname of basketball player James Posey)
• Big Game James (Nickname of basketball player James Worthy)
• Billy Liar (Novel and play by Keith Waterhouse and Tom Courtenay / Julie Christie movie)
• Blame game
• Brand new ballgame (A baseball expression meaning when a team that has been behind ties up the game)
• Bring your A game (perform to your best ability)
• Brum brum (child's play idiom expressing the sound of a vehicle)
• Call of Duty (video game title)
• Cat On A Hot Tin Roof (play by Tennesee Williams and Elizabeth Taylor movie)
• Cat and mouse game
• Child's play
• Chips With Everything (Arnold Wesker play)
• Close of play
• Come out and play
• Contact sport
• Cover Point (field position in the game of cricket)
• Death of a Salesman (play by Arthur Miller)
• Deep Extra Cover (field position in the game of cricket)
• Deep Fine Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
• Deep Gully (field position in the game of cricket)
• Deep Mid Wicket (field position in the game of cricket)
• Deep Point (field position in the game of cricket)
• Deep Square Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
• Didn't they do well! (A catchphrase from Bruce Forsyth In The Generation Game)
• Different ball game
• Don't play the innocent
• End of the ball game
• Everything to play for
• Extra Cover (field position in the game of cricket)
• Fair game
• Fair play
• Fair play to you
• First Slip (field position in the game of cricket)
• Forward Short Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
• Game bird
• Game brain
• Game changer
• Game of two halves
• Game on
• Game over
• Game plan
• Game set and match
• Game time
• Game to the last
• Games people play
• Give the game away
• Go and play in the traffic
• Golden Sombrero (A baseball expression denoting a player who strikes out four times in a game)
• Good sport
• Got game
• Grand Theft Auto (video game title)
• Guessing game
• 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
• I'm game
• 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 in the game (EA Sports advertising slogan)
• It's just a game
• It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game
• It's only a 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)
• Late in the game
• Leg Gully (field position in the game of cricket)
• Leg Slip (field position in the game of cricket)
• Lift your game
• Live in your world, play in ours (Sony advertising slogan)
• Long Day's Journey into Night (play by Eugene O'Neil)
• Long Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
• Long Off (field position in the game of cricket)
• Long On (field position in the game of cricket)
• Long Stop (field position in the game of cricket)
• Love play
• Make a play for
• Make great play of
• Man and Superman (play by George Bernard Shaw)
• Mario Kart (video game title)
• Mid Off (field position in the game of cricket)
• Mid On (field position in the game of cricket)
• Mid Wicket (field position in the game of cricket)
• Mother Courage (play by Bertolt Brecht)
• Mourning Becomes Electra (play by Eugene O'Neill)
• Mug's game
• Must win game
• Numbers game
• O Romeo, Romeo; wherefore art thou Romeo (from the play by Shakespeare)
• On the game
• Only A Pawn In Their Game (Bob Dylan song)
• Only game in town
• Platinum Sombrero (A baseball expression denoting striking out five times in a game)
• 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
• Primal Rage (film and video game)
• Put your game face on
• Raise your game
• Recreational shopping
• Roll over and play dead
• Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (play by Tom Stoppard)
• Second slip (field position in the game of cricket)
• She Stoops to Conquer (play by Oliver Goldsmith)
• Shell game
• Short Fine Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
• Short Mid Wicket (field position in the game of cricket)
• Short Square Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
• Silly Mid Off (field position in the game of cricket)
• Silly Mid On (field position in the game of cricket)
• Silly Point (field position in the game of cricket)
• Skin in the game
• Sod this for a game of soldiers
• Sonic the Hedgehog (video game title)
• Square Leg (field position in the game of cricket)
• Super Mario Brothers (video game title)
• Sword play
• Take me out to the ball game
• Talk a good game
• The Admirable Crichton (Play by J M Barrie and nickname of James Crichton)
• The Army Game (BBC comedy television series)
• 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 Dowager Queen of the Game Shows (Nickname of Pat Carroll)
• 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 beautiful game
• The blame game
• The game is afoot
• The game is up
• The name game
• The name of the game
• The play's the thing
• The sport of kings
• Third Slip (field position in the game of cricket)
• Third man (field position in the game of cricket)
• Threepenny Opera (play by Bertolt Brecht)
• Trap and ball (children's ball game)
• Triple play (A baseball expression denoting the act of making three outs during the same play)
• Two can play at that game
• Up your game
• View from a Bridge (play by Arthur Miller)
• Waiting for Godot (play by Samuel Beckett)
• War game (a simulation of war intended as preparation)
• What's your game?
• When the cat's away the mice will play
• Who are you? (Nintendo Game Boy Advance advertising slogan)
• Who's Afraid of Virgina Woolf? (play by Edward Albee)
• Whole new ball game
• Wicket Keeper (field position in the game of cricket)
• Winning is the mark of the Rebel (Rebel Sport advertising slogan)
• You hum it and I'll play it
• Zero sum game