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Meanings of play the hero in English

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Usage of play the hero in English
1
But for some reason you seem to need to play the hero.
Secret weapon spouse
2
The good news is that Jim Carrey doesn't play the hero.
The Irish Times
3
But it is difficult to play the hero with no spectators save oneself.
Tracks of a Rolling Stone
4
I shall not affect to play the hero, Monsieur le Capitaine.
The Wing-and-Wing; Or, Le Feu-Follet
5
Shall I tell you the truth, or play the hero?
A Simpleton
6
It also provides an opportunity to play the hero.
Wired
7
On this tiny stage, both could play the hero.
A place of my own: the architecture of daydreams
8
Doesn't make me feel any better that he didn't jump in to play the hero.
Angelfall
9
People don't express their real opinions, and any poor ragged devil might play the hero.
The Burgomaster's Wife — Volume 01
10
Then it would pass and I would laugh and sing and play the hero again.
Act of will
11
Instead, he gets to play the hero-therecord man who defeated the ultimate corporate suit.
The new yorker
12
You ask too much, for a man who himself has no occasion to play the hero.
Roderick Hudson
13
Come on, this isn't the time to play the hero -let's just get out of here.'
Meltdown
14
I will believe it and yet, at the same time, play the hero who foregoes his own desires.
The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, V...
15
No chance to play the hero.
Gravity
16
I knew he would want to play the hero and rush off to save that young fool Farinn.
Rage of the Dragon
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United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Common