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
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
Though there was no doubt plenty of competitive energy in their real-life friendships, there was always enough success to go around to make envy just a parlour game.
From The Guardian • Apr. 14, 2019
For ivory is everywhere an evil thing before which the quest for gold sinks into a parlour game; and when its charms seize such a tribe as the Fans, “conclusions pass their careers.”
From Travels in West Africa by Kingsley, Mary H.
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