as if!

While playing Scrabble tonight (we haven't done that in ages!) Loopy sent us into paroxysms of laughter by exhorting me to hurry up in these words:

"Play! Play! Play as if you've never played before!"

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(In case the joke isn't clear, she meant to say "as you've never played before," meaning faster and harder than ever before—not "as if you've never played before"...although that could have its advantages for the opponent as well).