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A Case Of
Identity
( Sherlock Holmes story )
A Doll's House (
play
by Henrik Ibsen )
A Mars a day helps you work, rest and
play
( Mars Chocolate advertising slogan )
A Streetcar Named Desire ( Marlon Brando movie )
A funny thing happened on the way to the
theatre
A
person
is known by the company he keeps
A
symbol
of freedom ( Southwest Airlines advertising slogan )
Address the ball ( golfing term denoting readiness to
play
)
All work and no
play
makes Jack a dull boy
Alpha and omega ( the first two letters of the Greek alphabet, used as a name for God or Jesus )
An Ideal Husband (
play
by Oscar Wilde )
Angel Cups ( Nickname of soap character Marcy Rhoades )
Angels in America (
play
by Tony Kushner )
As naked as
nature
intended
Back to
nature
Balance of
nature
Bat Masterson ( Nickname of American western character William Barclay Masterson )
Beauty contest ( a political contest in which the result is infuenced by
personality
and image more than by policy )
Beauty parade ( a political contest in which the result is infuenced by
personality
and image more than by policy )
Big
data
Billy Liar ( Novel and
play
by Keith Waterhouse and Tom Courtenay / Julie Christie movie )
Boat
person
Brum brum ( child's
play
idiom expressing the sound of a vehicle )
Bubbly
personality
Call of
nature
Cat On A Hot Tin Roof (
play
by Tennesee Williams and Elizabeth Taylor movie )
Cat
person
Chain
letter
Character assassination
Character driven fiction
Child's
play
Chips With Everything ( Arnold Wesker
play
)
Close of
play
Come out and
play
Crime against
nature
Cult of
personality
Data
archaeology
Data
cap
Data
dictionary
Data
integrity
Data
mining
Data
warehousing
Dead
letter
Death is nature's way of telling you to slow down
Death of a Salesman (
play
by Arthur Miller )
Deep sea
data
diving
Desperate Dan ( a cowboy strongman character in the British comic The Dandy )
Displaced
person
Don't
play
the innocent
Evening
person
Everything to
play
for
Fair
play
Fair
play
to you
First among equals ( the most senior
person
in a group of equal rank )
Force of
nature
Four
letter
word
French
letter
Fringe
theatre
Games people
play
Go and
play
in the traffic
Have you any last requests? ( humorous question asked as though a
person
was about to be killed )
He will never
play
the piano again
Heavy hitter ( A baseball expression meaning a powerful or commanding
person
)
Hedda Gabler (
play
by Henrik Ibsen )
Hold a mirror up to
nature
Horse
play
How does that
play
in Peoria?
Human
nature
I took my harp to the party but no one asked me to
play
Identity
crisis
Identity
theft
If music be the food of love,
play
on ( from Twelth Night by Shakespeare )
In
person
In
play
In the
nature
of things
Individual
streak
It isn't nice to fool mother
nature
It was twenty years ago today Sgt. Pepper taught the band to
play
( Beatles song lyric )
It's good to
play
together ( Microsoft Xbox advertising slogan )
It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you
play
the game
Juno and the Paycock (
play
by Sean O'Casey )
Kid n'
Play
( Nickname of Kevin Martin )
Lady Windermere's Fan (
play
by Oscar Wilde )
Let
nature
take its course
Letter
bomb
Letter
for
letter
Letter
perfect
Letter
quality
Live in your world,
play
in ours ( Sony advertising slogan )
Long Day's Journey into Night (
play
by Eugene O'Neil )
Love
play
Make a
play
for
Make great
play
of
Man and Superman (
play
by George Bernard Shaw )
Morning
person
Mother Courage (
play
by Bertolt Brecht )
Mother
nature
Mourning Becomes Electra (
play
by Eugene O'Neill )
Nature
abhors a vacuum
Nature
or nurture
Nature
trail
Nature
worship
Nature, red in tooth and claw
Not my type ( not a
person
one is attracted to )
O Romeo, Romeo; wherefore art thou Romeo ( from the
play
by Shakespeare )
Out of character
People
person
Person
of interest
Person
to
person
Play
Cupid
Play
God
Play
Misty For Me ( Clint Eastwood movie )
Play
a blinder
Play
a waiting game
Play
around
Play
ball
Play
both ends against the middle
Play
by ear
Play
by
play
Play
by the rules
Play
catch up
Play
catchup
Play
chicken
Play
dead
Play
devil's advocate
Play
dirty
Play
ducks and drakes
Play
fast and loose
Play
favorites
Play
favourites
Play
for keeps
Play
for time
Play
from the tips
Play
gooseberry
Play
hard to get
Play
hardball ( A baseball expression meaning to be or act tough or aggressive )
Play
havoc with
Play
hell
Play
hide the sausage
Play
hookey
Play
it again Sam
Play
it again, Sam ( New York State Lottery advertising slogan )
Play
it by the book
Play
it cool
Play
it for laughs
Play
it safe
Play
kissy face
Play
off
Play
possum
Play
safe
Play
second fiddle
Play
silly buggers
Play
softball ( A baseball expression meaning to ask easy questions )
Play
the field ( - indulge in a series of sexual relationships )
Play
the fool
Play
the game
Play
the old soldier
Play
the percentage game
Play
the race card
Play
the white man
Play
to win
Play
with fire
Play
within a
play
Play
your cards right
Play
your part
Play
yourself in
Playboy of the Western World (
play
by John Millington Synge )
Plug and
play
Poison pen
letter
Potty mouth ( a foul mouthed
person
)
Raw
data
Red
letter
day
Roll over and
play
dead
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (
play
by Tom Stoppard )
Second
nature
Sex
symbol
She Stoops to Conquer (
play
by Oliver Goldsmith )
Somebody somewhere wants a
letter
from you ( British Post Office advertising slogan )
Split
personality
Sword
play
The Admirable Crichton (
Play
by J M Barrie and nickname of James Crichton )
The Boys in the Band (
play
by Mart Crowley )
The Cherry Orchard (
play
by Anton Chekhov )
The Devil's Disciple ( Bernard Shaw
play
and Burt Lancaster movie )
The Easter Bunny
The Famous Five (
characters
in Enid Blyton's series of children's book )
The Ginger Man (
play
by JP Donleavy )
The Glass Menagerie (
play
by Tennessee Williams )
The Iceman Cometh (
play
by Eugene O'Neill )
The Importance of Being Ernest (
play
by Oscar Wilde )
The Mad March Hare
The Plough and the Stars (
play
by Sean O'Casey )
The Purloined
Letter
The Purloined
Letter
( Edgar Allan Poe book )
The Quare Fellow (
play
by Brendan Behan )
The Scarlet
Letter
( Nathaniel Hawthorne story )
The Scottish
play
The best way of expressing your intelligence ( Zenith
Data
Systems advertising slogan )
The laws of
nature
The
letter
of the law
The
nature
of the beast
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid ( Jane Austen quotation )
The play's the thing
There's only one
Three
letter
acronym
Threepenny Opera (
play
by Bertolt Brecht )
To the
letter
Toilet mouth ( a foul mouthed
person
)
Triple
play
( A baseball expression denoting the act of making three outs during the same
play
)
Two can
play
at that game
View from a Bridge (
play
by Arthur Miller )
Waiting for Godot (
play
by Samuel Beckett )
Wardrobe mistress ( a
person
in charge of the costumes of a theatrical company )
When the cat's away the mice will
play
Who's Afraid of Virgina Woolf? (
play
by Edward Albee )
You hum it and I'll
play
it
Your better
nature