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play ball

Cooperate, as in The opposing attorneys refused to play ball with us . [ Slang ; c. 1900]
Get going, start, as in It's time to get a move on; let's play ball . This usage comes from the baseball umpire's call to start a game. [ Slang ; late 1800s]

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He added that “If…universities do not play ball, lawyer up, because the federal government is coming after you.”

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But Russia refused to play ball, insisting there could be no end to the fighting until a whole series of conditions were met.

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And right now, Putin does not appear to want to play ball.

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“I’m going to play ball with you.”

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And there’s the whole other theme here where it would appear that Adams was coached by Bove to essentially offer: I’ll really play ball on immigration if you’ll dismiss the cases.

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