| 词汇 | play ball with |
| 释义 | Idiom play ball withplay ball (with someone) to agree to do something the way someone else wants you to.Critics say the agency has been pressured to play ball with drug companies. Related vocabulary: play along with someone/something, go along with someone/something Etymology: play ball is said to start a baseball game by the official who controls the game play ball with (one)1. Literally, to play baseball with, or throw a baseball back and forth with, one. Why don't you go out back and play ball with your son for a while? After spending a week in bed with the flu, Tommy was eager to go out and play ball with his friends. 2. To do what one wants or says; to cooperate with one; to. The prosecution is much more interested in bringing down your boss—if you play ball with them, they said they'll reduce your sentence from 15 years down to three. Just play ball with the kidnappers, and nobody will get hurt! play ball with someone1. Lit. to toss a ball back and forth with someone. Carla is out playing ball with the little kids. Will you play ball with us? 2. Lit. to play baseball or some other team sport with someone. Do you want to play ball with our team? I decided I wouldn't play ball with the school team anymore. 3. Fig. to cooperate with someone. Why can't you guys play ball with us? Max won't play ball with the gang anymore. play ball with, toTo cooperate. The term apparently comes from baseball around the turn of the twentieth century. In baseball today, play ball simply means to start or continue playing the game. The with confers the idea of a team or cooperative effort. C. Terrett used the metaphor in Only Saps Work (1930): “The police are too dumb . . . to play ball with the hold-up mob.” |
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