Usage of "parlor game"

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A game suitable for playing in a parlor.

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Examples for "parlour game"

Examples for "parlour game"

They keep me in the room, a parlour game: come watch this ur-adult. 
 The Intimate Adventures of a London Call Girl 

In this simple parlour game players are presented with several piles of matches. 
 Wired 

As he spoke, the so-called parlour game was in full swing. 
 News.com.au 

There is a kind of parlour game one can play here. 
 The Guardian 

Quite a little parlour game-sortof three-cardtrick, is it not? 
 Sherlock holmes: the complete illustrated novels 

Uso de parlor game em inglês

Ever heard of a parlor game called Three Degrees of Jason Collins? 
 Ebony 

Besides, the fall parlor game will matter much more than this spring one. 
 Reuters 

Teddy tried to concentrate, already tiring of this parlor game. 
 Shutter Island 

Keeping track of M.P.'s was no mere parlor game, not when human lives were involved. 
 Creepers 

A congressman from Pennsylvania contributed to the parlor game with a quip on CNBC television. 
 Reuters 

It's a medical problem, not a parlor game. 
 An impartial witness: a bess crawford mystery 

Alberto, a charming, charismatic doctor, arrives late and brings with him a sort of parlor game. 
 The new yorker 

The writer also uses the parlor game Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon to explain this phenomenon. 
 The new yorker 

Nicole had chosen to leave the family parlor game that was going on in the living room. 
 The Complete Rama Omnibus 

Most recently I've been enjoying an electronic version of a parlor game on my iPhone called Bang! 
 Wired 

It's also a fun literary parlor game. 
 Ebony 

But it's become sort of a polite parlor game to trace influences. He picked up another piece. 
 Nova 

For a year and a half I've been learning and discovering that life isn't a parlor game. 
 Burned Bridges 

It is an ugly, ugly parlor game of "what if" had that backstop not been available. 
 Reuters 

They had obviously both been playing the great American parlor game of We Don't Really Hear Them, Do We? 
 Rage 

But that hardly stopped Washington from playing a new round in its favorite parlor game: Who's running for what? 
 Reuters 

Translations for parlor game

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Significados de parlor game em inglês