An anagram is a type of word play, the result of rearranging the letters of a word or phrase to produce a new word or phrase, using all the original letters exactly once ; for example orchestra can be rearranged into carthorse.

" It has no basis in historical fact and Shakespeare's use of Latin here is not from any assertion that Caesar would have been using the language, rather than the Greek reported by Suetonius, but because the phrase was already popular when the play was written.

It was popularly known as the moon buggy, a play on the phrase " dune buggy ".

He said of his mother, " She improved my love of vegetables by introducing the phrase, ' You can't go out and play cricket until you have eaten all your vegetables.

In tournament play, the chair umpire announces the end of the match with the well-known phrase " Game, set, match " followed by the winning person's or team's name.

This has occurred frequently enough to lead to the phrase YACC: " Yet Another CVS Clone " ( a play on the Unix command named, which stands for " yet another compiler compiler ").

In English the phrase first appeared in the 17th century in John Dryden's heroic play, The Conquest of Granada ( 1672 ), where it was used by a Christian prince disguised as a Spanish Muslim to refer to himself, but it later became identified with the idealized picture of " nature's gentleman ", which was an aspect of 18th-century sentimentalism.

In English, the phrase Noble Savage first appeared in poet Dryden's heroic play, The Conquest of Granada ( 1672 ):< poem >

The phrase " Nature versus nurture " in its modern sense was coined by the English Victorian polymath Francis Galton in discussion of the influence of heredity and environment on social advancement, although the terms had been contrasted previously, for example by Shakespeare ( in his play, The Tempest: 4. 1 ).

* In French vernacular speech the phrase " faire le Zouave " can be translated as " to play the goat " i. e. to behave wildly.

The title phrase refers to the moment when a con artist finishes the " play " and takes the mark's money.

Even though the effort that it takes to pronounce a word does not hold any influence in writing, a word or phrase may be spelled the same as it is spoken, for example, in poetry or in the script for a theatre play, in order to show the actual speech of a character.

To achieve this a player must guess the word or phrase being drawn by their partner, or if the player lands on an " all play " square, one player from each team attempts to illustrate the same concept simultaneously, with the two teams racing to guess first.

* In Tracy Letts ' Pulitzer Prize-winning play August: Osage County, Bill Fordham uses the phrase to describe his marital problems with his wife Barbara when he says to her: " Just because you and I are struggling with this Gordian knot doesn't make me any less of a --"

* " Solamen miseris socios habuisse doloris ", a Latin phrase from Marlowe's play The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus

* in the phrase " repeat ad libitum ," to play the passage an arbitrary number of times ( cf.

This phrase is the last line of the play.

* English dramatist Christopher Fry, in his play " Venus Observed ", includes the phrase, "... every pool's as populous as Penge ..." in a long speech.

The title is a phrase which appeared in Adams ' novel Life, the Universe and Everything to describe the wretched boredom of immortal being Wowbagger, the Infinitely Prolonged, and is a play on the theological treatise Dark Night of the Soul, by Saint John of the Cross.

Each musician has control over which phrase he or she plays: players are encouraged to play the phrases starting at different times, even if they are playing the same phrase.

Ni sangre, ni arena (" Neither Blood, nor Sand " a play on words on the bullfighter / gladiator phrase Blood and Sand ), the 1941 bullfighting film, broke box-office records for Mexican-made films throughout Spanish-speaking countries.

There are many anime references, particularly to the series Space Battleship Yamato ( the name Nadesico is a play on the phrase " Yamato nadeshiko ", which represents the traditional Japanese ideal of femininity, and also the name of a flower ).

The common phrase " Work hard, play hard " illustrates this mindset.

Now, he could only play the last card in what was probably the world's coldest deck.

School began in August, the hottest part of the year, and for the first few days Miss Langford was very lenient with the children, letting them play a lot and the new ones sort of get acquainted with one another.

In his native Cologne, where his mother taught him to play the piano, he was able to read notes before he learned the alphabet.

The depersonalization continued as the dancer was further metamorphosed by the play of lights upon his figure.

Tom was not willing to revise the play according to the plan the man suggested.

It may be thought unfortunate that he was called on entirely by accident to perform, if again we may trust the opening of the oratio, for it marks the beginning for us of his use of his peculiar form of witty word play that even in this Latin banter has in it the unmistakable element of viciousness and an almost sadistic delight in verbally tormenting an adversary.

He kept his attacks on Republicanism for partisan campaigns, but that is part of the game he was born to play.

That was one of the high spots of the play.

The figure was so theatrically dressed, that it was as though a character from some other play had blundered into this one.

The play for Saturday night was to be a benefit performance of The Octoroon.

Life was a short play of tenebrous shadows.

It was all set up so there would be no dust anywhere and so that their children would color in the coloring room, paint in the painting room, play with blocks in the block house, and do all the other things in the proper rooms at exactly the right time.

It seemed, indeed, that their house was not so much a home, but rather a perfect stage set, and that they were actors who had been handed fat roles in a successful play, and had talent enough to fill the roles competently, with nice understatement.

She was still in the play for pay business when she died, a top trollop who had given the world's oldest profession one of its rare flashes of glamour.

Carroll was sharp and military, but he was up against tough competition for that RA berth, and he wanted to play it cool.

Babe Ruth, of course, was everyone's hero, and everyone knew him, even though relatively few ever saw him play ball.

It was a bad play, real grade-A turkey, which only a prevalence of angels with grandiose dreams of capital gain and tax money to burn could have put into rehearsal.

I knew the only way I could beat you was to play possum, but it was a good try, kid, and I appreciate it.

When Robinson tried to stretch his blow into a triple, he was cut down in a close play at third, Tuttle to Andy Carey.

The Air Force's, and the game's, final play, was a long pass by quarterback Bob McNaughton which Gannon intercepted on his own 44 and returned 22 yards.

Despite the 45-degree weather the game was clicked off in 1:48, thanks to only three bases on balls and some good infield play.

Kieffer, the only junior in the group, was commended for his ability to hit in the clutch, as well as his all-round excellent play.