Wiktionary
parlor game
n. (alternative spelling of parlour game English)
WordNet
parlor game
n. a game suitable for playing in a parlor [syn: parlour game]
Usage examples of "parlor game".
Surely she understood that Irene Toller was playing a distinctly unpleasant parlor game.
Intrigued as they were by this insane parlor game, some of the visitors never lost sight of their main interestto discover what the entity was and why it had come.
It was like a parlor game down in Misky Bay to take a squint at babies and young children, see if they looked like ‘.
Back home, the idea of French had seemed like a parlor game anyhow.
Articles on the topic have appeared in such mainstream publications as USA Today and American Heritage, and academic alternate histories, the parlor game of the 1930s, are respectable once again.