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(sports) To attack an opponent instead of attacking the ball, which is usually being controlled by the attacked player at the time.

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play the man and not the ball

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He always plays the man and not the ball.

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(by extension, idiomatic, colloquial) To object to someone's argument by attacking them or a facet of their personality instead of the argument itself; to make an ad hominem attack.

""What we are seeing is an orchestrated campaign from the Labor Party to try to play the man and not the ball," he said... "[And] this is the kind of personal attack that we are going to see from the Labor Party right up until polling day.""

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