Bob Hope, Reader's Digest

(October 1958)

If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.

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[play] See: [ALL WORK AND NO PLAY MAKES JACK A DULL BOY], [DOUBLE PLAY], [FAIR PLAY], [FORCE PLAY], [GAME AT WHICH TWO CAN PLAY], [MAKE A PLAY FOR], [TURN ABOUT […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

play the game

[play the game] {v. phr.}, {informal} To obey the rules; do right; act fairly. * /"That's not playing the game," we told him when he wanted to desert his wife./ […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

play a waiting game

[play a waiting game] {v. phr.} To withhold action until one's chances for success improve. * /Ray would like to be vice president of the company so he is playing […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

game at which two can play

[game at which two can play] {n. phr.} A plan, trick, or way of acting that both sides may use. * /Rough football is a game two can play./ * […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

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