Sentence examples for play potato from inspiring English sources

Food and drink are flung and sloshed in Mr. Landsman's play (potato chips and cola), and a melon is vivisected, pulped and splattered for Mr. Khalezin's sinister portrait of a policeman interrogating a dissident student.

The Sunday Telegraph judged the film - a vehicle for the talents of the TV comics Johnny Vegas and Mackenzie Crook, who play potato deliverymen on the pull - to be "probably the lewdest Britcom since Confessions of a Window Cleaner, and certainly the worst".

Then, one sallow October morning, I took a deep breath and lifted my Armstrong box set off the shelf and played Potato Head Blues.

"That way, they don't simply play hot potato," he says.

He enjoys word play: his potato masher, Spudnik, resembles the space-age satellite; and Squisk is a whisk with thick legs that looks a little like a squid.

Canisters that had already discharged their gas were brought to the trenches so the boys could play hot potato, staging contests to see who could hold the scalding metal in their fingers the longest.

While it is nothing new for automakers to play Mr. Potato Head by sticking on different grilles and nameplates -- "badge engineering" in industry parlance -- the adaptations go beyond restyling a Buick Regal and calling it a Pontiac Grand Prix.

Keeping some "skin in the game" should accomplish two things: make the banks and securitizers more attentive to the creditworthiness of the underlying mortgages, and reduce the tendency to play "hot potato" with mortgage-backed securities.

She is trying to shun gossip too and we play "hot potato" with it until her babysitter grabs it.

All the while, as House Republicans play hot potato with how to turn back progress, millions of Americans still need comprehensive immigration reform to ensure that their families won't be torn apart.

The scene in the episode in which Spider-Man catches Norman Osborn in mid-air and makes several sarcastic comments to Vulture, such as "You guys play hot potato hardcore!" and "He may be right.