play silly buggers

verb

play silly buggers

verb

1

Australia, Canada, New Zealand, UK, Idiomatic To act in a stupid or reckless manner.

"Look," he said, "it's just fate playing silly buggers with you. With me. With us. It's a complete coincidence."1982, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything, page 95:

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