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)
“The guided missiles,
The black-and-white angels follow each quirk and jink of
The evasive sheep, play grandmother’s-steps behind them,
Freeze to the ground, or leap to head off a straggler”
—Cecil Day Lewis (1904–1972)