be playing at sth
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› If you ask what someone is playing at, you are angry because they are doing something stupid: What on Earth/the hell were you playing at? - You could have got us all killed!Behaving in a silly way
(Definition of be playing at sth from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- act/play the goat idiom
- be asking for it/trouble idiom
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- fart about/around phrasal verb
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