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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
String
Of Pearls ( Glenn Miller tune )
A golden
key
can open any door
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the meaning and origin of this phrase...
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Address the ball ( golfing term denoting readiness to
play
)
Ain't That A Shame? ( Fats Domino song )
All
Quiet
On The Western Front ( Erich Maria Remarque book and WWII movie )
All work and no
play
makes Jack a dull boy
An Ideal Husband (
play
by Oscar Wilde )
Angels in America (
play
by Tony Kushner )
Anything for a
quiet
life
Architecture is
music
frozen in time ( Friedrich von Schelling quotation )
As
quiet
as a mouse
Baby grand
Billy Liar ( Novel and
play
by Keith Waterhouse and Tom Courtenay / Julie Christie movie )
Blueberry Hill ( Fats Domino song )
Boogie woogie
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the meaning and origin of this phrase...
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Brum brum ( child's
play
idiom expressing the sound of a vehicle )
Cat On A Hot Tin Roof (
play
by Tennesee Williams and Elizabeth Taylor movie )
Chicago piano
Child's
play
Chips With Everything ( Arnold Wesker
play
)
Close of
play
Come out and
play
Crocodile Rock ( Elton John song )
Death of a Salesman (
play
by Arthur Miller )
Do you know the
piano's
on my foot?
Don't
play
the innocent
Don't shoot the piano player
Ear for
music
Elevator
music
Everything to
play
for
Face the
music
Fair
play
Fair
play
to you
Fear Is The
Key
( Barry Newman movie )
Games people
play
Go and
play
in the traffic
Got the world on a
string
Have a second
string
to your bow have
He will never
play
the piano again
Hedda Gabler (
play
by Henrik Ibsen )
Horse
play
House
music
How does that
play
in Peoria?
How long is a piece of string?
I Can't Stop Loving You ( Ray Charles song )
I Do Like To Be Beside The Seaside ( British
Music
Hall song )
I Got A Woman ( Ray Charles song )
I Got Rhythm ( George Gershwin song )
I took my harp to the party but no one asked me to
play
If
music
be the food of love,
play
on ( from Twelth Night by Shakespeare )
In
play
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 )
Key
of the door ( Bingo call for number twenty one )
Key
to your heart
Kid n'
Play
( Nickname of Kevin Martin )
Lady Windermere's Fan (
play
by Oscar Wilde )
Let's face the
music
and dance
Like a puppet on a
string
Live in your world,
play
in ours ( Sony advertising slogan )
Lock him up and throw away the
key
Long Day's Journey into Night (
play
by Eugene O'Neil )
Love
play
Low
key
Make Your Own Kind Of
Music
( Mama Cass Elliot song )
Make a
play
for
Make great
play
of
Man and Superman (
play
by George Bernard Shaw )
More than one
string
to your bow
Most men live lives of
quiet
desperation
Mother Courage (
play
by Bertolt Brecht )
Mourning Becomes Electra (
play
by Eugene O'Neill )
Music
Box ( Mariah Carey album )
Music
City ( Nickname of Nashville Tennessee )
Music
has charms to soothe the savage breast
Music
is art. Muzak is science ( Muzak Corporation advertising slogan )
Music
to my ears
No music, no life ( Tower Records advertising slogan )
O Romeo, Romeo; wherefore art thou Romeo ( from the
play
by Shakespeare )
Off
key
On the
quiet
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
Popular
music
Put the
pedal
to the metal
Quiet
before the storm
Roll over and
play
dead
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (
play
by Tom Stoppard )
Round Midnight ( Thelonious Monk tune )
She Stoops to Conquer (
play
by Oliver Goldsmith )
Skeleton
key
Soft
pedal
Steinway: the instrument of the immortals ( Steinway Pianos advertising slogan )
String
along
String
someone along
Sweet
Music
( Nickname of Frank Viola )
Sword
play
Take Five ( Dave Brubeck tune )
Thank you for the music, the songs I'm singing ( ABBA lyric )
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 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 Plough and the Stars (
play
by Sean O'Casey )
The Quare Fellow (
play
by Brendan Behan )
The
Quiet
Man ( Nickname of John Ruiz )
The Scottish
play
The Sound Of
Music
( Julie Andrews movie )
The West Coast Sound ( name applied to Californian pop music, especially that of The Beach Boys )
The best way to get
music
out of your system ( Philips advertising slogan )
The
key
to a nice, relaxed evening ( Horlicks advertising slogan )
The
music
of the spheres
The play's the thing
There's many a good tune played on an old piano
Threepenny Opera (
play
by Bertolt Brecht )
Throw away the
key
Tickle the ivories
Triple
play
( A baseball expression denoting the act of making three outs during the same
play
)
Two can
play
at that game
Under lock and
key
Van Gogh's ear for
music
View from a Bridge (
play
by Arthur Miller )
Waiting for Godot (
play
by Samuel Beckett )
When the cat's away the mice will
play
Who's Afraid of Virgina Woolf? (
play
by Edward Albee )
With rings on her fingers and bells on her toes she shall have
music
wherever she goes ( line from nursery rhyme )
Without music, life would be a mistake ( Friedrich Nietzsche quotation )
World
music
You can't keep
quiet
about a Wispa ( Cadbury's Wispa advertising slogan )
You hum it and I'll
play
it