Sentence examples for playing it down from inspiring English sources

So after that, y'know … this is playing it down, I guess.

Even while playing it down as a fluke, catcher Jorge Posada conceded his frustration.

Instead of covering it up or playing it down, you investigated the matter and put your findings on the first page for all to see.

Playing it down since, the authorities in Qinhuangdao, where the bus was tested, have said the TEB will just be used for tourism rather than major transportation.

So he hardly flaunts his interestingness, unless playing it down is as much a form of flaunting as playing up his ordinariness.

Government, by playing it down as a tidying-up exercise of no importance; Eurosceptics in seeing it as the end of British sovereignty as we know it.

"But I thought I played it down!

She tends to play it down now.

I think they will try to play it down".

He plays it down when I mention it.

Asked about that characterisation, McBride plays it down.