play the game with almost as much vigor and malice as sb

●Idioms, etc.

play the game with almost as much vigor and malice as sb: （人に）負けぬほど悪意と殺意のかたまりになってる スティーヴン・キング著 芝山幹郎訳 『ニードフル・シングス』(Needful Things ) p. 358