играть на руку | |
gen. | play game; play the game of; play into the hands; work in favor; play into hands |
dipl. | play into the hands of |
fig. | play host |
Makarov. | play into hands; play into the hand's of; play into the hands of |
террорист | |
gen. | gunsel |
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play into the hands; work in one's favor (ivvi); play into hands (кому-либо); play into the hands of (+ dat.); do someone's bidding (U.S. officials who opposed the decision to go after al-Nusra's wider leadership warned that the United States would effectively be doing the Assad government's bidding by weakening a group on the front line of the counter-Assad fight. VLZ_58); play into one's efforts (Having incompetent enemies is a blessing. For three years, Chinese President Xi Jinping has showered blessings upon the US. A self-isolated, belligerent and increasingly repressive China has been its own worst enemy, playing into America’s efforts to check Chinese power. bloomberg.com aldrignedigen) | |||
play host (Abysslooker) | |||
put at an advantage (Abysslooker) | |||
play into someone's hands (кому-либо); play into the hand's of (someone – кому-либо); play into the hands of (someone – кому-либо) | |||
bring grist to the mill (кому-либо); bring grist to somebody's mill (кому-либо); play the game of (someone – кому-либо) | |||
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play game; play the game of | |||
play into the hands of | |||
play into someone's hand |
играть на руку: 8 phrases in 5 subjects |
Chess | 1 |
General | 3 |
Idiomatic | 2 |
Politics | 1 |
Rhetoric | 1 |