play someone false

present singular third person plays someone false · participle present playing someone false · participle past played someone false · past played someone false

1. To betray someone; to be disloyal to someone.

   And yet she was ensnaringly beautiful, despite her pride and self-consciousness; radiant and certain of conquest she stood before the man who alone seemed to have neither eye nor ear for charms that had never elsewhere played her false.

   1893, E. Werner, Clear the Track!, page 94

   Synonyms: do someone dirty, double-cross, sell out, assfuck, betray, burn, cop out, cross out