Citations:rain stopped play


 * year unknown, Chabers 21st Century Dictionary, Allied Publishers ISBN 9788184243291, page 1064
 * 2 the playing of a game, performance in a sport, etc □ rain stopped play. 3 colloq behaviour; conduct o fair play a foul play. 4 (plays) a dramatic piece for the stage  or a performance of it n The play is being put on at the Playhouse. 5 fun; jest ...
 * 1998, Oxford University Press, The Oxford Dictionary of Abbreviations, Oxford University ISBN 9780192800732, page 326
 * ... officer &#39; Royal Scottish Orchestra ~ rural suboffice R$0¢M6l| Royal Society of Medicine r.s.p. rain stopped play RSPB Royal Society for the Protection of Birds  RSPCA Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals RSPP Royal  Society ...
 * 2012, Desmond Morris, Peoplewatching: The Desmond Morris Guide to Body Language, Random House ISBN 9781407071497, page 470
 * And we know that in some wars rain stopped play. just as it does with cricket. Of course group competition was involved, as in other sports, but again this does not  seem to have been the whole explanation. There appear to be plenty of cases ...
 * 2013, R J J Hall, Theatres of War: A novel set in wartime Italy, Troubador Publishing Ltd ISBN 9781783060849, page 243
 * &#39;It&#39;s rain stopped play again,&#39; the Colonel says when Edmund next gets through. &#39; We&#39;re holding on for the weather.&#39; It&#39;s the same message every day. &#39;We&#39;ve had one more wounded and four men sent back by the MO.&#39; Edmund tells him. &#39;Major  ...
 * 2015, Martin Bell, The End of Empire: Cyprus: A Soldier's Story, Pen and Sword ISBN 9781473848191
 * We were playing some sort of NATOrelated war game, the Blue side against the Red, with the Suffolks taking on the forces of the Duke of Dhavlos, nefarious  allies of the ... But the threeweek exercise was cut short when rain stopped play.
 * 2012, John Lawton, Riptide, Atlantic Books Ltd ISBN 9781611859898
 * It was possible he&#39;d spent the long weekend between the wars on the reserve list, only to be called up at once when rain stopped play at Munich. It was possible he&#39; d been promoted in the background. Much more possible, to the point of ...
 * 2009, Kathryn Welch, Julius Caesar as Artful Reporter: The War Commentaries as Political Instruments, ISD LLC ISBN 9781910589366, page 65
 * The War Commentaries as Political Instruments Kathryn Welch. himself, after the defeat of the Veneti, went after the Morini and Menapii, who unsportingly  retreated into woods and marshes until rain stopped play, and Caesar had to  place his ...
 * 2014, David Mannall, Battle on the Lomba 1987: Battle on the Lomba 1987, Helion and Company ISBN 9781910777442, page 144
 * In previous years, carefully crafted combat plans had come up short, in part because of the subtropical rainfall season. ... the fresh second wave to move  through Mavinga and onwards to Jamba, all before rain stopped play in  December.