play a joke on

play a joke on someone

to make a joke that tricks someone. The children played a joke on their teacher. I don't like it when you play jokes on me.

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Erwann	-	Breton
Gyeong-Suk	gyung-sook	Korean
Arness	['a:nəs]
Francis	FRANT-səs (English)	English, French
AnastÁZia	-	Slovak
Pavel	PAH-vyel (Russian), PAH-veel (Russian)	Russian, Czech, Bulgarian, Slovene, Macedonian