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A
match
made in heaven
Abide with me ( hymn traditionally sung at the English
football
Cup Final )
(
the meaning and origin of this phrase...
)
Ahead of the game
Ain't That A Shame? ( Fats
Domino
song )
All Day ( Nickname of American
football
player Adrian Peterson )
All Fun And
Games
Until Somebody Loses An Eye ( Christopher Brookmyer book )
All your base are belong to us ( broken English phrase used in the video game Zero Wing )
America's Oldest Living Teenager ( Nickname of game show host Dick Clark )
Anyone's game
Are you ready for some football?
As
brave
as a lion
As game as Ned Kelly
As stiff as a
poker
Bad Moon ( Nickname of American
football
player Andre Rison )
Bart the Cool ( Nickname of American
football
player Bart Starr )
Be a good
sport
Beaten at your own game
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 Al ( Nickname of
football
player Alan Shearer and of basketball player Al Jefferson )
Big Ben ( Nickname of basketball player Ben Wallace and American
football
player Ben Roethlisberger )
Big Cat ( Nickname of American
football
player Leon Lett )
Big Daddy ( Nickname of American
football
Dan Wilkinson )
Big Game James ( Nickname of basketball player James Posey )
Big Game James ( Nickname of basketball player James Worthy )
Big Phil ( Nickname of
football
manager Luiz Felipe Scolari )
Big Sam ( Nickname of
football
manager Sam Allardyce )
Big fish in a small
pool
( someone considered influential compared to their less significant peers )
Bingo
wings
Blame game
Blueberry Hill ( Fats
Domino
song )
Bonetti's defense
Brand new ballgame ( A baseball expression meaning when a team that has been behind ties up the game )
Brave
New World ( Aldous Huxley book )
Brave
the elements
Brighton line (
Bingo
call for number fifty nine )
Bring your A game ( perform to your best ability )
Call of Duty ( video game title )
Cat and mouse game
Challenge everything ( EA
Games
advertising slogan )
Champagne Tony ( Nickname of American
football
player Tony Eason )
Clickety click (
Bingo
call for number sixty six )
Contact
sport
Cover Point ( field position in the game of cricket )
Crazy Legs ( Nickname of American
football
player Elroy Hirsch )
Cut throat
competition
Dandy Don ( Nickname of American
football
player Don Meredith )
Deal or no deal
Deep Extra Cover ( field position in the game of cricket )
Deep Fine Leg ( field position in the game of cricket )
Deep Gully ( field position in the game of cricket )
Deep Mid Wicket ( field position in the game of cricket )
Deep Point ( field position in the game of cricket )
Deep Square Leg ( field position in the game of cricket )
Dick around
Didn't they do well! ( A catchphrase from Bruce Forsyth In The Generation Game )
Different ball game
Do not pass Go
Doctor's Orders (
Bingo
call for number nine )
Domino
effect
Droopy drawers (
Bingo
call for number forty four )
Dumpster diving
End of the ball game
Extra Cover ( field position in the game of cricket )
Eye up the
competition
Face the
competition
Fair game
First Slip ( field position in the game of cricket )
Fortune favours the
brave
Forward Short Leg ( field position in the game of cricket )
Fourth Quarter Vince ( Nickname of American
football
player Vince Young )
Fred Ex ( Nickname of American
football
player Freddie Mitchell )
Frisbee
golf
( A game based on
golf
but using frisbees rather than balls )
Fun and
games
Game bird
Game brain
Game changer
Game of two halves
Game on
Game over
Game plan
Game set and
match
Game time
Game to the last
Games
people play
Garbage Man ( Nickname of American
football
player Michael Bradley )
Get N or get out ( Nintendo 64 advertising slogan )
Get out of jail free card ( a means of avoiding justice - from the eponymous card in the Monopoly boardgame )
Give the game away
God
willing
and the creek don't rise
Golden Guus ( Nickname of
football
manager Guus Hiddink )
Golden Sombrero ( A baseball expression denoting a player who strikes out four times in a game )
Good clean fun
Good
sport
Got game
Grand Theft Auto ( video game title )
Group of death ( the most difficult or competitive group in a sports
tournament
)
Guessing game
Happy families
Hatch,
match
and dispatch
He Hate Me ( Nickname of American
football
player Rod Smart )
Head
games
Heavy Lunch ( Nickname of American
football
player Norman Hand )
Hide and seek
Hockey
Mom
Horse play
I spy with my little eye
I'm game
It's all fun and
games
until somebody gets hurt
It's in the game ( EA Sports advertising slogan )
It's just a game
It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game
It's only a game
Key of the door (
Bingo
call for number twenty one )
Late in the game
Leg Gully ( field position in the game of cricket )
Leg Slip ( field position in the game of cricket )
Legs eleven (
Bingo
call for number eleven )
Let the
games
begin
Lift your game
Long Leg ( field position in the game of cricket )
Long Off ( field position in the game of cricket )
Long On ( field position in the game of cricket )
Long Stop ( field position in the game of cricket )
Love
match
Mario Kart ( video game title )
Mean
spirited
Meet your
match
Mid Off ( field position in the game of cricket )
Mid On ( field position in the game of cricket )
Mid Wicket ( field position in the game of cricket )
Mind
games
Mix and
match
More than a
match
for
Mug's game
Musical chairs
Must win game
Never mind the buzzcocks
No
contest
No one likes us, we don't care ( A catchphrase from Millwall
football
supporters )
Numbers game
On me head son ( Invitation to cross a
football
so that another player can head it )
On the game
Only A Pawn In Their Game ( Bob Dylan song )
Only game in town
Only the
brave
deserve the fair and the fair deserve JAEGER ( Jaeger Sportswear advertising slogan )
Pass the parcel
Patriot
Games
( Harrison Ford movie )
Perfect
match
Piggy in the middle
Pin the tail on the donkey
Pissing
contest
Pit your wits against
Platinum Sombrero ( A baseball expression denoting striking out five times in a game )
Play a waiting game
Play
softball
( A baseball expression meaning to ask easy questions )
Play the game
Play the percentage game
Poacher turned
gamekeeper
Pocket
pool
Points mean prizes
Poker
Face ( Lady Gaga song )
Poker
face
Political
football
Primal Rage ( film and video game )
Put a
brave
face on
Put your game face on
Raise your game
Ready
willing
and able
Royal flush ( in
poker
- a hand including a ten jack queen king and ace of the same suit )
Sack race
Scotland the
brave
Second slip ( field position in the game of cricket )
Seesaw Margery Daw Johnny shall have a new master ( line from nursery rhyme )
Sega has what nintendon't ( Sega advertising slogan )
Shell game
Shoot a birdie ( score one under par in a
golf
shot )
Shoot hoops
Short Fine Leg ( field position in the game of cricket )
Short Mid Wicket ( field position in the game of cricket )
Short Square Leg ( field position in the game of cricket )
Silly Mid Off ( field position in the game of cricket )
Silly Mid On ( field position in the game of cricket )
Silly Point ( field position in the game of cricket )
Silly Putty
Skin in the game
Snake eyes
Snakes alive (
Bingo
call for number fifty five )
Sod this for a game of soldiers
Sonic the Hedgehog ( video game title )
Square Leg ( field position in the game of cricket )
Step up to the mark ( mark yourself ready to take responsibility )
Stiff
competition
Super Mario Brothers ( video game title )
Take me out to the ball game
Talk a good game
The Army Game ( BBC comedy television series )
The Crazy Gang ( Nickname of Wimbledon
Football
Club )
The Dowager Queen of the Game Shows ( Nickname of Pat Carroll )
The Hunger
Games
( Suzanne Collins book )
The Sims ( video game title )
The Special One ( Nickname of
football
manager Jose Mourinho )
The Thriller In Manila ( Ali versus Frazier boxing
match
)
The beautiful game
The blame game
The game is afoot
The game is up
The mint with the hole (
Polo
Mints advertising slogan )
The name game
The name of the game
The smoker's
match
( Swan Vesta matches advertising slogan )
The spirit is
willing
but the flesh is weak
The
sport
of kings
Third Slip ( field position in the game of cricket )
Third man ( field position in the game of cricket )
Three on a
match
Top of the shop (
Bingo
call for number ninety )
Trap and ball ( children's ball game )
Two can play at that game
Two fat ladies (
Bingo
call for number eighty eight )
Two little ducks (
Bingo
call for number twenty two )
Unlucky for some (
Bingo
call for number thirteen )
Up your game
War game ( a simulation of war intended as preparation )
Was she worth it (
Bingo
call for number fifty six )
What a hoot
What's your game?
Who are you? ( Nintendo Game Boy Advance advertising slogan )
Whole new ball game
Whole shooting
match
Wicket Keeper ( field position in the game of cricket )
Winning is the mark of the Rebel ( Rebel
Sport
advertising slogan )
Word association
football
You are in a Beauty
Contest
Every Day of your Life ( Camay Soap advertising slogan )
Zero sum game