Persian perhaps shuffled cards, meeting the French in game (4,6)
I believe the answer is:
cats cradle
'game' is the definition.
(child's game)
'persian perhaps shuffled cards meeting the french' is the wordplay.
'persian perhaps' becomes 'cat' (Persian is a breed of cat).
'shuffled' indicates an anagram.
'meeting' says to put letters next to each other.
'the french' becomes 'le' ('the' in French).
'cards' anagrammed gives 'scrad'.
'cat'+'scrad'+'le'='CATS-CRADLE'
'in' is the link.
(Other definitions for cats cradle that I've seen before include "String arrangement" , "Child's game played with string looped over the fingers" , "Child's game involving fingers and string" , "child's construction" , "Fun for string-players" .)