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“play a game”

We have one entry that includes the term play a game.

play (a game of) cat and mouse

idiom

: to engage in behavior that is like the way a cat chases a mouse or plays with a mouse before killing it used especially to describe behavior in which someone says or does different things to deceive or control other people, to avoid being caught, etc.


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