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play false



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Idioms and Phrases

Deceive or betray one, as in If my memory does not play false, I met them years ago in Italy . [Late 1500s]
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HILLYRE: A somewhat screechy instrument prone to playing false notes; produces an inexplicable twang in southern climes.

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Spoilers for last Sunday’s , “The Other Woman,†and previous episodes, below: Joan Harris was manipulated, played false and used on Sunday night.

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A player who has never troubled himself to learn the leads is perpetually playing false cards, and deceiving his partner.

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It is as if the eye should conspire to cheat the hand, or the one hand play false to the other.

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I had kept my word loyally to--well, to Ashlock, since so I still must term him, even in my thoughts--nay, was still keeping it the while he played false with me.

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