game that two can play, that's a

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Also, two can play at that game. Another can behave in the same way or do the same thing. For example, He refused to tell us whether he would go or stay, but that's a game two can play. This expression is generally used as a threat of retaliation. [Early 1800s]

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Interesting that those who sat in judgment of him found those two sets of beliefs to be incompatible.
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If anything the work the two cops and the maintenance guy were doing deserves more respect and probably helped a lot more people.
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Toomey lives here with her husband, Mark, a managing director at Goldman Sachs, and their two daughters.
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This is going to be the Game of Thrones of U.S. Senate races.
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But no more so than the Sodexo building maintenance man or the two cops who were also killed in the crossfire.
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And to tell the truth, she couldn't help wishing he could see, so he could make the game livelier.
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The case was an assault and battery that came off between two men named Brown and Henderson.
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On the thirteenth of the same month they bound to the stake, in order to burn alive, a man who had two religious in his house.
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I assure you, no matter how beautifully we play any piece, the minute Liszt plays it, you would scarcely recognize it!
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The night wore on, and the clock downstairs was striking the hour of two when she suddenly awakened.
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