parlour game
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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The paper's chief theatre critic Arifa Akbar wrote that the play was "breathtaking theatre with its own arresting imagination" and "not just a clever parlour game for fans".
From BBC ● Dec. 15, 2023
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
IT HAS become something of a parlour game among Australian politicians.
From Economist ● Nov. 3, 2016
Table turning as a parlour game is about as stupid and aimless an amusement as I know.
From Seen and Unseen by Bates, E. Katharine
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