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romelpanzer

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"To play the game " means to act in a proper manner or to behave in a way that is accepted. But, what does it mean when one says " I will not play this game with you". I am sure it was not literal meaning when I heard it. Does it mean he will not co-operate or he does not agree with me. Unfortunately, I can't reproduce the context, as this phrase has come back to my mind after hearing it in a conversation long back.
 

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Without more context, it's really hard to say. He must have felt there was something fake about the way you were interacting and he didn't want any part of it.
 

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:up: He doesn't want any part of it - sometimes BECAUSE he regards it as trivial or scheming (when it's scheming the idiom is often expanded: 'I'm not going to play your little game' {The scheme could be something like A says something to B so that B will say something else to C so that C will say something else to D so that D will persuade E to do something that A wanted them to do.})

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thanks Bard_D and BobK.
 
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