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[play the game]  {v. phr.},  {informal}

Подчиняться правилам; поступать правильно, должным образом; поступать красиво, справедливо.

* /"That's not playing the game," we told him  […]

[play to the gallery]  {v. phr.}

Пытаться заработать одобрение слушателей.

Whenever John recites in class he seems to be playing to the gallery.

* /The lawyer for the defense was more interested in playing to the  […]

[plume oneself]  {v. phr.},  {literary}

Гордиться собой; хвастаться, кичиться.

He plumed himself on having the belle of the ball as his date.

He plumed himself on his successful planning in the election.

* /She  […]

[point]

См.:

[AT SWORDS' POINTS],

[AT THE POINT OF],

[BESIDE THE POINT],

[BOILING POINT],

[CASE IN POINT],

[COME TO THE POINT],

[EXTRA POINT],

[MAKE A POINT],

[ON THE POINT OF],

[SORE SPOT] или [SORE POINT],

[STRETCH A POINT] или  […]

[poke around] или [poke about]  {v.}

1. Выискивать что-л.; заглядывать во (или подо) что-л.

The detective poked around in the missing man's office.

2. Бродить, слоняться бесцельно;  […]

[poles apart]  {adj.}

Совершенно разные, совсем другой.

The two brothers were poles apart in personality.

[pond]

См.: [LITTLE FROG IN A BIG POND].

[pool]

См.: [CAR POOL].

[pooped out]  {adj.},  {slang}

Измученный; обессиленный, изнуренный.

Everyone was pooped out after the hike.

[poor as a church mouse]  {adj. phr.},  {informal}

без гроша; бедствующий; ужасно бедный (как церковная мышь).