parlour game

noun

an informal indoor game

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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.

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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".

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And so here is my advice on the off chance this parlour game so beloved here crops up in your day-to-day conversation.

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Speaking to the Times, he said he will be holding on to his current job and accused Tory MPs of playing "political parlour games".

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Assessing celebrity bookcases is a pandemic parlour game.