parlor game

NOUN
  1. a game suitable for playing in a parlor
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How To Use parlor game In A Sentence

  • Predicting who the veep will be for each party is, of course, a favorite parlor game - and this year, a particularly long one.
  • After trying to play the Washington parlor game of the moment — "Was Alan Patricof invited?" he asked, referring to a fellow ardent Clinton supporter — Mr.
  • But for the sake of our parlor game, let's cast all that aside.
  • The ritual is not a parlor game andshould beapproached with solemn respect. Prophecy…a gift from God! « Julian Ayrs & Pop Culture
  • What makes this more than a parlor game demonstrating female superiority is the extent to which it reveals the role of empathy in giving. Kelly Kleiman: Whether Women are more Generous than Men, and Whether it Matters
  • Putting a bullet through a million close-printed names-a parlor game.
  • Though all four are friends, it has already become a Washington parlor game to guess who will prevail in the inevitable infighting.
  • BUENOS AIRES — In Argentina, the nation with more psychologists per capita than any other, a favorite parlor game has involved trying to divine the dynamics of the relationship between President Cristina Kirchner and her late husband and predecessor, N é stor. Behind the Scenes of Argentina's Power Couple
  • And if you can't come up with a refutable hypothesis, which Friedman doesn't, then it all really just is a parlor game. Economics and Evolution, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
  • Henry Waugh lives, said Curt Young of Chittenango, N.Y., referring to a 1968 Robert Coover novel about an accountant who immerses himself in a baseball parlor game. Baseball's Original Nerd Magnet
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