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
And so here is my advice on the off chance this parlour game so beloved here crops up in your day-to-day conversation.
From BBC • Nov. 23, 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
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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