Sentence examples for play a mug from inspiring English sources

I said to someone, 'There are not many great comics of any description, and here I am working with two female comic geniuses - can I hold my own?'" "In Small Time Crooks, you play a mug, like those character actors in Warner Brothers comic crime capers of the 1940s.

Like a riverboat gambler, Nixon figured on playing Frost for a mug.

Yes, he's dealing with a drinking problem, but all that ends up doing is give him the shadings of an arc, unlike poor Octavia Spencer, reduced to wincing and mugging on the sidelines, playing a character so thinly-sketched that she and her entire oversized brood feel like they escaped from a sitcom.

Unfortunately, this one just seemed like background noise to give Justin Bieber an excuse to play Justin Bieber and mug for the camera, which caused people in the audience to scream.

Parsing the true meaning of a Pinter play can be a mug's game of course.

Sitting in a basin of water under the apple tree, with a mug to play with.

Nodding to his presence in New York, he played "Mean Mug," which features 50 Cent on record, though sadly, not here.

"Playing opposite the Mug seemed normal to me," he said.

If these were the rules of a card game only a mug would sit down to play.

"The public don't want to be played for mugs, they don't want these allegations being used as some sort of political tactic".

They were falsely accused of incitement and removed from Nauru by Scott Morrison, who said: The public don't want to be played for mugs with allegations being used as some sort of political tactic in all of this.