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How to pronounce byplay in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms business, stage business
Type of acting, performing, playacting, playing
Has types schtick, schtik, shtick, shtik

Examples of byplay

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Here, the byplay between Staley and McDonald became good-natured and lively.
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She's brash, at times a bit raunchy, but her byplay with hero Sam is fun and humorous.
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Savor Groucho's balletic brashness and his byplay with that sublime foil Margaret Dumont.
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They both smiled, enjoying the byplay during a joint interview last week in Santa Clara.
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As usual in the solution of such strikes, there is political byplay.
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Allusions to their on-off affair add spice to the byplay, but it doesn't come off as gratuitous.
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The White House, Situation Room, interagency byplay, as important as they are, are not everything.
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You don't have to be an incorrigible wisenheimer to get a chuckle out of the not-so-subtle byplay going on.
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There is also verbal byplay with sportscaster Howard Cosell.
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More examples
  • Business: incidental activity performed by an actor for dramatic effect; "his business with the cane was hilarious"
  • Any action, carried out onstage during a performance, apart from the main action
  • Variations not directly connected to the problem's theme.