play ball

She said on Monday that the UK could suspend visas from countries that do not "play ball" and comply with the return of migrants who have no right to stay in the UK.

That was definitely the sense from her first brief interview in the role on Monday, in which she repeatedly vowed to do "whatever it takes" to tackle illegal immigration, suggested she could withdraw visas from countries that do not "play ball" on migrant returns and embraced the potential introduction of ID cards - all in clear, plain language.

It is not obvious whether Democrats should or would play ball.

Those advising him warned him to play ball.

A decade later, Superman starred in a comic book public service announcement in which he chided a teen who said “Those refugee kids can’t talk English or play ball or anything” by taking him to a shabby camp to show the boy the hardships refugees had to endure.