play someone false

verb

play someone false

verb

1

To betray someone; to be disloyal to someone.

And yet she was ensnaringly beautiful, despite her pride and self-consciousness; radiant and certain of conquest she stood before the man who alone seemed to have neither eye nor ear for charms that had never elsewhere played her false.1893, E. Werner, Clear the Track!, page 94:

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