play ball | Idiomator

Meaning: (idiomatic)Tostartanythingtumultuous.; (idiomatic)Towork together; tocooperate.The politicians refused toplay ballwith the journalists.1981April 11, Philip Shehadi, “Dutch Gays Come To NY, Protest Immigration Laws”, inGay Community News, page 4:Donohue also promised Kopacz he'd help him out of his numerous legal problems in several stales if K. wouldplay ballwith Mass. cops and agree to implicate Roger Spear and Mark Davis as malefactors in Barbre's death.2019January 9, Drachinifel, 15:17 from the start, inThe Channel Dash / Operation Cerberus - How to win through refuge in audacity‎[1], archived fromthe originalon24 July 2022:TheLuftwaffe, at this point, was still refusing toplay ballcompletely, however. But someone decided to lump Adolf Galland with command of the air operation, and he decided to work withLuftflotte3, mobilizing their training units to make up the numbers, since large numbers of that particular formation's fighters had been diverted to the campaign in Russia, which was why the fighter numbers were so much lower than they had been the previous year.; (baseball,softball)An expression used at the beginning of a game ofbaseballorsoftball.

Examples:

EN: - Can you play ball?
ES: - ¿Sabes jugar al béisbol?
EN: Come on over and play ball.
ES: Vamos a jugar al béisbol.
EN: You play ball with me, and your worrying days will be over.
ES: Conmigo, los malos días han acabado.
EN: You play ball and the mob won't let you down.
ES: Sigue el juego y la Banda no te dejará caer.
EN: Well, do we play ball?
ES: Bueno, ¿Vamos a ello?
EN: I just want to be sure he understands how we play ball here.
ES: Sólo quería estar seguro de que entiende cómo jugamos aquí.
EN: Play ball with me and I'll play ball with you.
ES: Si cooperas conmigo, yo cooperaré contigo.
EN: if you wanted to be smart and play ball,
ES: Si eres lista y quieres seguir en este juego,
EN: And you play ball
ES: ♪ ¡Juega! ♪
ES: ♪ ¡Juega! ♪
ES: ♪ ¡Juega! ♪
EN: If the bankers in this town won't play ball, there are bankers that will.
ES: Si los banqueros de esta ciudad no quieren cooperar, otros lo harán.
EN: You play ball or we'll bust your bubble so quick it'll make your head spin.
ES: Colaborarás o haremos que se te bajen los humos.
EN: You don't play ball with those grafters, Jim.
ES: No debes hacer ese tipo de jugadas, Jim.
EN: No, I ain't going to be tough, and I'll play ball with you.
ES: No voy a ponerme difícil. Te voy a seguir el juego.
EN: Now, make them play ball with us.
ES: Haga que jueguen a nuestro favor.
EN: There are a lot of boys around my ward who'll play ball with you if you take it.
ES: Hay muchos chicos en mi distrito que cooperarían con usted si lo aceptara.

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