make play

make play
1) охот. доставить много хлопот охотникам (о звере)

A young bull of great game, made play for no less than nine-and-twenty dogs. (‘Sporting Magazine’, OED) — Разъяренный молодой бык доставил много хлопот чуть не тридцати собакам.

2) не давать передышки противнику

I trust that the Duke will muster every man he can, and make play until the royal forces come up. (A. C. Doyle, ‘Micah Clarke’, ch. IX) — Я надеюсь, что герцог, использовав каждого человека, не даст противнику передышки до подхода королевских войск.


Большой англо-русский фразеологический словарь. - М.: «Русский язык-Медиа».. 2006.

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