play away from home

play away from home

To have sexual relations with someone who is not one's partner or spouse. Primarily heard in UK. With her frequent nights spent at "work," I can't help but feel that Janet has been playing away from home.
See also: away, home, play
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • sustain
  • sustain (one) in (something)
  • sustain in
  • (one's) old man
  • (one's) old lady
  • (one's) lord and master
  • master
  • (one's) true colours
  • flagrante
  • in flagrante
References in periodicals archive
They are a difficult team to play away from home and they have been playing really well so far this season.'
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"I think it would be a lack of respect to the stadium and to the fans to say we prefer to play away from home, than to play at home.
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"It would be a lack of respect to the stadium and fans to say we prefer to play away from home.
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If either team is drawn to play away from home, they will receive a [euro]5,000 grant towards travel costs.
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THREE-TIME Champions Cup winners Toulon were knocked off top spot in Pool Five and will have to play away from home in the quarter-finals after they failed to claim a wining bonus point at Bath and Wasps thrashed Leinster, writes Graham Woods.
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"I think it might be better to play away from home at the moment because at least we know beforehand we are guaranteed to be booed because they want their home club to win.
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"We like to play away from home in the same way that we like to play at home.
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I think we have players here who can utilise the space you get when you play away from home."
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Preece said: "We've worked really hard to get through to the semi-finals and now we've got to play away from home and on an artificial pitch.
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"It's very pleasing because it's always difficult to play away from home. It's just a pity we haven't won more games at home but the front men are finding the back of the net and we scored three great goals in front of our fans in the first half.
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He said: "When we play away from home, the other team are playing in front of their fans urging them to go forward.
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"Naturally there is a high expectation when we are playing at home, and possibly the players are a little less inhibited when they play away from home."
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"It depends where you go but at some stadiums it is difficult to play away from home," he added.
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"It is interesting to play away from home now in a big game because we just played away from home (at Hamburg in the Champions League).
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Brentford and Colchester, who both play away from home tomorrow, have two games in hand but Booth countered: "There's no reason why we can't get in the top two - we've just got to keep winning.
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