Anyone for tennis?

This article is about the idiom. For other uses, see Anyone for tennis? (disambiguation).

The phrase "Anyone for tennis?" (also given as "Tennis, anyone?") is an English language idiom primarily of the 20th century. The phrase is used to invoke a stereotype of shallow, leisured, upper-class toffs (tennis was, particularly before the widespread advent of public courts in the later 20th century, seen as a posh game for the rich, with courts popular at country clubs and private estates).[1][2] It's a stereotypical entrance or exit line given to a young man of this class in a superficial drawing-room comedy.[3]

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