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play the papers

To gamble. Primarily heard in US. If you keep playing the papers, you'll have no money left at all! I refuse to lend him any more money until he stops playing the papers!

See also: paper, play

See also:

gamble on
gamble on (someone or something)
come into (some) money
come into money
be made of money
color of someone's money, see the
a lot of moola
cheese-paring
funny money
be (right) on the money

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"We're telling [rank and file strikers] that we're playing the papers' game if we engage in violence.

Violence escalates

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play trump card
play up
play up to
play up to (one)
play well with others
play with
play with (one)
play with (oneself)
play with (something)
play with a full deck
play with fire
play with fire, to
play with loaded dice
play with yourself
play your ace
play your cards close to your chest
play your cards right
play yourself in
play/wreak havoc with something
playa
playa hata
play-by-play (description)
play-by-play description
played out
player
playing the papers
plead
plead down to (something)
plead for
plead guilty (to something)
plead guilty to
plead not guilty (to something)
plead the Fifth (Amendment)
plead to
plead to (something)
plead with
plead with (one)
pleading
pleasantly plastered
please
please (oneself)
Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally
please God
please hold
please oneself
please the eye
please yourself
pleased as punch
pleased for
pleased for (one)
pleased to meet you
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playing the goat
playing the hand he is dealt
playing the hand he's dealt
playing the hand I am dealt
playing the hand I'm dealt
playing the hand is dealt
playing the hand one is dealt
playing the hand one's dealt
playing the hand she is dealt
playing the hand she's dealt
playing the hand somebody is dealt
playing the hand somebody's dealt
playing the hand someone is dealt
playing the hand someone's dealt
playing the hand they are dealt
playing the hand they're dealt
playing the hand we are dealt
playing the hand we're dealt
playing the hand you are dealt
playing the hand you're dealt
playing the heavy
playing the horses
playing the man and not the ball
Playing the market
Playing the market
Playing the market
Playing the market
Playing the market
Playing the market
playing the old soldier
playing the papers
playing the percentage game
playing the percentage game
playing the percentage game
playing the percentages
playing the percentages
playing the percentages
Playing the Ponies
playing the race card
playing the wag
playing the waiting game
playing their cards close to their chests
playing their cards right
playing their cards well
playing their game
playing their hunch
playing their trump card
playing them against
playing them as
playing them like a fiddle
playing them like fiddles
playing them off against
playing them off as
playing themselves in
playing three dimensional chess
playing three-dimensional chess
playing through
Playing Time
playing to
playing to her strengths
playing to his strengths
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