parlour game
Britishnoun
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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
Millennial The starting gun on the tedious inter-generational parlour game “Who is going to pay for my house?”
From The Guardian ● Aug. 2, 2017
If I remember rightly—it is long since I played it—there is a parlour game entitled "Puss in the Corner."
From Idle Ideas in 1905 by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome
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