Smother play in contract bridge is a type of endplay where an opponent's apparent trump trick goes away.
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Famous quotes containing the words smother and/or play:
“Where women love each other, men learn to smother their mutual dislike.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)
“To play is nothing but the imitative substitution of a pleasurable, superfluous and voluntary action for a serious, necessary, imperative and difficult one. At the cradle of play as well as of artistic activity there stood leisure, tedium entailed by increased spiritual mobility, a horror vacui, the need of letting forms no longer imprisoned move freely, of filling empty time with sequences of notes, empty space with sequences of form.”
—Max J. Friedländer (1867–1958)