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单词 play someone off
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play someone off

Bring people into conflict or competition for one’s own advantage: top footballers were able to play clubs off against each other to gain higher pay...
  • It's divide-and-rule, playing us off in a grim bidding war of who will work for the least money.
  • Don't let the property developers play us off against each other.
  • ‘Eamon believed that Today FM were trying to play him off against Bird as a way of keeping down the size of his salary,’ said one station insider.
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