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card
noun- a tactic held in reserve and then used to win an advantage US, 1973
Usually in the expression “playing the (fill in the blank) card.” - — American Speech, Winter 1983
- an eccentric; a lively personality UK, 1836
- Mr [Charles] Kennedy has a well perked image because he’s a card, who appears on bantering chat shows[.] — Guardian, 12 February 2002
▶ go through the card
to have everything on offer; to cover something comprehensively UK
Originally, “to back every winning horse at a race-meeting.”- — David Powis, The Signs of Crime, 1977
▶ on the card
in railway slang, on time US- — Ramon Adams, The Language of the Railroader, p. 108, 1977
▶ pull someone’s card
to kill someone US- When his friends told him what was happening, he approached Jackson’s group and said, “I’ll pull your card”–street slang for saying he would kill someone. — Birmingham News, p. 3C, 27 July 2006
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