play ball (with (someone))

to agree to do something the way someone else wants you to.

Critics say the agency has been pressured to play ball with drug companies.

Related vocabulary: play along with someone/something, go along with someone/something

Etymology: play ball is said to start a baseball game by the official who controls the game

• your tail between your legs
• your two cents
• your two cents worth
• your way out of a paper bag
• your wedding tackle
• your whole world came crashing down around
• your whole world came crashing down around you
• you said it
• You scratch my back and I'll scratch yours.
• You should be so lucky!
• You've got me there.
• You've made your bed .
• You've made your bed and you'll have to lie in it.
• You wouldn't wish on my worst enemy.
• You wouldn't wish on your worst enemy.
• You wouldn't wish something on my worst enemy.
• You wouldn't wish something on your worst enemy.
• zero in
• zero in on
• zero in on something
• zero-sum game
• zone out
• zoom in
• zoom in on
• zoom in on something