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单词 to play off on
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to play off on
b. intransitive. U.S. to play off on: to deceive, fool, con; spec. to fool by feigning illness. Cf. sense 20b.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > duping, making a fool of > make a fool of [verb (intransitive)]
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to play off on1863
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1863 O. W. Norton Army Lett. (1903) 135 I fancy..I could play off on the doctors and get it [sc. a discharge].
1865 O. L. Jackson Colonel's Diary (1922) 194 I did not enlighten her that some fellow has played off on them.
1889 E. Custer Tenting on Plains 173 I was playin' off on him, just to get a big drink of whisky.
1925 J. T. Moore Ole Mistis 84 In her old aige ter be played off on by er lot ob counterfeits on humanity an' imported dorgs wuz too much.
1967 in Dict. Amer. Regional Eng. (2002) IV. 207/2 [Iowa] Playing off on you.
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