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cat and mouse game

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a cat and mouse game
play cat and mouse - to try to defeat someone by tricking them into making a mistake so that you have an advantage over them. It's just the latest manoeuvre in the eternal cat and mouse game between the police and drug runners.
See also: cat, game, mouse

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This engaging suspense thriller rotates back and forth between 1973 and the War using the 1940s as a base for the 1970s cat and mouse game between the second generation offspring.
In the United Arab Emirates, the government plays "a cat and mouse game of moderate intensity," blocking pornography and some political Sites, though not really cracking down on violators.
 
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