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play up

English

  1. 🔊 move into the foreground to make more visible or prominent
    “The introduction highlighted the speaker's distinguished career in linguistics”
  2. 🔊 ingratiate oneself to
    “She is playing up to the chairman”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 trastear to play up, play about, misbehave
  2. 🔊 exagerar to play up, to inflate, to overplay, to ham up

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