How to pronounce “play the man and not the ball”

Meaning

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

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