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
Chuks	-	Western African, Igbo
Patricia	[pə'triʃə]
Imran	-	Arabic, Urdu, Punjabi, Malay, Bengali
Kichirou	kee-chee-ṙo:	Japanese
Alvina	al-VEEN-ə	English
Julia	JOO-lee-ə (English), YOO-lee-ah (German, Swedish, Danish, Finnish), HOO-lyah (Spanish), YUWL-yah (Polish), YOO-lee-yah (Russian), YOO:-lee-ah (Ancient Roman)	English, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Dutch, Spanish, Polish, Finnish, Russian, Ukrainian, An