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play the game

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play the game
to behave in a way that is accepted or demanded by those in authority. You have to learn to play the game if you want to be successful at work.
See also: game, play


play the game
to act in the correct or expected way. Some people do well just because they know how to play the game.
See also: game, play


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Felix here, who knows him best, says that he will not come because he prefers ever to play the game from outside the circle, a looker-on to all appearance, yet sometimes wielding an unseen force.
Those "fellows," as he called them, "are only fit to mark the points, while we play the game.
He was a man's man primarily, and the instinct in him to play the game of life was strong.
 
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