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Meanings of play high in English

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Usage of play high in English
1
They play high nowadays, and your system would sweep all before it.
Jacqueline of Golden River
2
You are accustomed to play high, and expect to do it here?
The Northern Light
3
Pressure! Guardiola demanded that his team play high, asphyxiating the opposition.
The Irish Times
4
Couldn't you mark a pack of cards and get him to play high?
The Face and the Mask
5
Nor play cards of a Sunday, nor ever play high.
Love and Life: An Old Story in Eighteenth Century Costume
6
Small screens are not usually designed to play high-definition video.
Reuters
7
You don't get to play high-and-mighty with me anymore.
Heaven's Queen
8
When he come drunk, remain drunk, play high and fight, YOU will not poonish him?
Sally Dows
9
I have three hundred sequins myself, but that is not enough because the punters play high.
The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 0...
10
When I was a little girl we skip rope an' play high-spy (I Spy).
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States...
11
Their idea was that they would sing hymns and play high-class melodies, but it wasn't his.
Novel Notes
12
Then, when we play high school teams at a distance from here the railroad expenses eat up enormously.
The High School Freshmen; or, Dick & Co.'s First Year Pranks and...
13
It is never easy, you cannot only play counterattack, you cannot only play high-press, you have to prepare for everything.
The Guardian
14
I don't play high.
The Secret Passage
15
Nearly all Contradictors are "chevaliers" of the Legion of honor; they talk loudly, have retreating foreheads, and play high.
Madame Firmiani
16
From my theatre days, I learned that characters play high status or low status between each other and that's usually pretty static.
Ebony
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