play with loaded dice

1. Literally, to use dice that have been weighted to one side so as to increase the odds of their landing on the opposite number. When they found out we'd been playing with loaded dice, they threw us out of the club and told us to never come back.

2. By extension, to gain an advantage through the exploitation or manipulation of rules or regulations. At the height of the economic boom, investment bankers were playing with loaded dice by using sub-prime mortgages with falsified credit ratings to make as much money as possible.

词组	play with loaded dice
释义	play with loaded dice play with loaded dice 1. Literally, to use dice that have been weighted to one side so as to increase the odds of their landing on the opposite number. When they found out we'd been playing with loaded dice, they threw us out of the club and told us to never come back. 2. By extension, to gain an advantage through the exploitation or manipulation of rules or regulations. At the height of the economic boom, investment bankers were playing with loaded dice by using sub-prime mortgages with falsified credit ratings to make as much money as possible. See also: dice, loaded, play Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. See also: loaded dice literally within an ace of, to be roll the dice snake eyes audi alteram partem no matter which way the dice fall (one) must have killed a Chinaman bear in beat/knock/kick the hell out of somebody/something References in periodicals archive Annabel Daou's unfolded dice in "Unloaded" refer to the possibility of breaking open a rigged system, where one has to play with loaded dice. Debating the white cube convention
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