love game

love game {n.}

A game of tennis which is won without the opponent scoring.

Britain took a love game on Songster's service.

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[game] See: [AHEAD OF THE GAME], [LOVE GAME], [NAME OF THE GAME], [PLAY THE GAME], [AT --- STAGE OF THE GAME]. A Dictionary of American Idioms

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[at --- stage of the game] {adv. phr.} At (some) time during an activity; at (some) point. * /At that stage of the game, our team was doing so poorly […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

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