on one's game
临场发挥,上场,上场比赛,临阵磨枪
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Definitions
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- : an amusement or pastime: children's games.
- : the material or equipment used in playing certain games: a store selling toys and games.
- : a competitive activity involving skill, chance, or endurance on the part of two or more persons who play according to a set of rules, usually for their own amusement or for that of spectators.
- : a single occasion of such an activity, or a definite portion of one: the final game of the season; a rubber of three games at bridge.
- : the number of points required to win a game.
- : the score at a particular stage in a game: With five minutes to play, the game was 7 to 0.
- : a particular manner or style of playing a game: Her game of chess is improving.
- : anything resembling a game, as in requiring skill, endurance, or adherence to rules: the game of diplomacy.
- : a trick or strategy: to see through someone's game.
- : something treated lightly or lacking in seriousness; sport: That's enough of your games! When I was young, love was just a game to me.
- : wild animals, including birds and fishes, such as are hunted for food or taken for sport or profit.
Phrases
- game is not worth the candle, the
- game is up, the
- game that two can play, that's a
- ahead of the game
- at this stage (of the game)
- badger game
- beat someone at his or her own game
- call someone's bluff (game)
- confidence game
- end game
- fair game
- fun and games
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
Still, the game of chicken between Pelosi and moderate Democrats is striking.
The output of a restaurant cannot be defined in numbers or data like a game.
“We’re using this as an opportunity to really understand our game at a higher level,” McCutchen said.
Hahn’s comments — and his later apology — affirmed the idea that politics was seeping into the work of health officials who are supposed to be above playing that game.
When you write him off as being past his prime, he might just respond with a game like Sunday’s vintage performance — 364 yards, 73 percent of passes completed, four touchdowns and zero interceptions — against the Minnesota Vikings.
This is going to be the Game of Thrones of U.S. Senate races.
Dora is seen getting dressed as a mermaid by a cursor being manned by some omniscient game player.
Think of it as Game of Thrones—if you subtract the sex and violence and add drunken revelry and singing.
Actually, the guessing game is over; the weddings have begun, as have weird attempts to circumvent our constitutional democracy.
When the game starts, there is only sand, a white ball, a flag indicating hole 1, and a “0” at the top of the screen.
And to tell the truth, she couldn't help wishing he could see, so he could make the game livelier.
Jean clung to his English nurse, who played the fascinating game of pretending to eat his hand.
Two many-branched candelabra, holding wax lights, brilliantly illuminate the game.
The unhappy applicant was naturally obliged to temporarily retire from the game, at all events for that night.