parlour game
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Westminster's favourite parlour game - "how many letters of no confidence have been submitted to Sir Graham Brady?" - is up and running again.
From BBC • Jan. 19, 2024
At a care home in Clamart, south of Paris, on Monday, 66-year-old Marie-Dominique Chastel was playing a parlour game with residents.
From Reuters • Mar. 2, 2021
In the parlour game Six Degrees of Separation contestants are challenged to find the shortest path between an arbitary actor and Kevin Bacon.
From BBC • Mar. 23, 2020
The hunt for these killers will only ever be a parlour game played for our own entertainment and at the victims’ expense.
From The Guardian • Apr. 2, 2019
It is a favourite performance on the stage, and not seldom tried as a parlour game.
From Psychology and Social Sanity by Münsterberg, Hugo
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