Play ball

The politicians refused to play ball with the journalists.

Donohue also promised Kopacz he'd help him out of his numerous legal problems in several stales if K. would play ball with Mass. cops and agree to implicate Roger Spear and Mark Davis as malefactors in Barbre's death.

The Luftwaffe, at this point, was still refusing to play ball completely, however. But someone decided to lump Adolf Galland with command of the air operation, and he decided to work with Luftflotte 3, mobilizing their training units to make up the numbers, since large numbers of that particular formation's fighters had been diverted to the campaign in Russia, which was why the fighter numbers were so much lower than they had been the previous year.