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toy with

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toy with someone
to encourage someone to believe you care about them when you do not. Don't fool yourself by thinking he wants a serious relationship — he's famous for toying with women.
Related vocabulary: lead someone on
See also: toy


toy with something
1. to think about something but not seriously. We're toying with the idea of going to Peru next year.
2. to handle something or move it around without any clear purpose. As he was speaking, he toyed nervously with a button on his jacket.
See also: toy

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If a poor man wished to toy with it, he must either starve or find a rich friend to be his patron, to give him work to do that would leave him time to write also.
We do not toy with sharp swords nor hug a gnawing fox to our breast for choice.
Hilbery had accomplished his task, he resumed his crouching position again, and began to toy with the little green stone attached to his watch-chain.
 
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