1. to have no plans; idle 2. an illusory plan 3. a daily plan for the unemployed
"What are your plans for today?" the father asked his unemployed daughter.
"I thought I would play shuffleboard on the promenade, followed by skeet shooting on the lido deck," she answered sarcastically as she sat in her bathrobe surfing the net.
Letting you down politely, when you ask someone to do something and they want to do something, just not with you, they will say they're going to "play it by ear".
When one commences to try to trick you or play you, the fish makes no sense in the sentence just as trying to play you doesn’t make sense. Similar to the saying playing on my top
Eric, you thought I was gonnalook why you tryna play me like a fish.