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单词 to make play with
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to make (great) play with (also of)
(c) to make (great) play with (also of): to use (an idea, circumstance, etc.) freely and with a view to advantage; to make much of, exploit.
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1872 N. Amer. Rev. July 78 In the fourth place, Mr. Buckle makes great play, in his pompous, hollow way, with the contrast of induction and deduction.
1903 Times 16 Oct. 7/2 At one point he made play with the maxim that we ought to do to others as we would wish them to do to us.
1931 R. A. J. Walling in J. Bright Diaries xv. 398 (note) He made great play of the advancement of Manchester within half a century from government by a Borough Reeve..to the stately dignity of a great municipality.
1960 D. E. Butler & R. Rose Brit. Gen. Election 1959 x. 133 Fewer Conservative candidates..made play with the argument that Labour's disunity made the party incompetent to govern.
2003 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 8 Nov. 3 The embarrassing episodes, of which the Australian media made great play.
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