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sleeve 1. noun a condom UK, 1998.► on the sleeveused of someone who injects drugs. From the need to roll up a sleeve before injecting UK, 1996.► put the sleeve on someoneto arrest someone UK, 1996 2. verb to tattoo the lower half of the arm US, 1989
idiomsleevehave/keep sth up your sleeve(also have an ace/card/trick up your sleeve)to have a secret plan, advantage, or argument that you can use to be successful in a situation if other plans fail:Parham's a highly intelligent man, and I'm sure he's got something up his sleeve.Explaining the plan, Ross paused; he had an ace up his sleeve, but he wasn't sure whether to tell them yet.Her husband just laughed as though he still had a few tricks up his sleeve.NoteThis idiom comes from card games, in which someone could cheat by hiding a card in his sleeve (=the part of a shirt, coat etc that covers your arm) until he needed it. sb is laughing up his/her sleeveused in order to say that someone is secretly laughing at you, especially because they know something about a situation that you do not:Is a dead sheep an artistic statement, or is Hirst laughing up his sleeve at the art world?Tazcek must have been laughing up his sleeve the whole time I was interviewing him - I thought he was just a friend of Nowak, but in fact he was her lover.
See:- a card up (one's) sleeve
- ace up (one's) sleeve
- be laughing up (one's) sleeve
- be laughing up your sleeve
- card up one's sleeve
- card up sleeve
- hang on (one's) sleeve
- have (one's) heart on (one's) sleeve
- have (something) up (one's) sleeve
- have a card up (one's) sleeve
- have a card up your sleeve
- have a trick up (one's) sleeve
- have an ace up (one's) sleeve
- have an ace up one’s sleeve
- have an ace up your sleeve
- have an ace/a trick up your sleeve
- have got an ace up (one's) sleeve
- have something up your sleeve
- have up sleeve
- have/keep something up your sleeve
- keep (something) up (one's) sleeve
- laugh in (one's) sleeve
- laugh up (one's) sleeve
- laugh up one's sleeve
- laugh up one's sleeve, to
- laugh up sleeve
- laugh up your sleeve
- pin (one's) heart on (one's) sleeve
- pin (one's) heart to (one's) sleeve
- roll (one's) sleeves up
- roll sleeves up
- roll up (one's) sleeves
- roll up one's sleeves
- roll up your sleeves
- stretch your arm no further than your sleeve (will reach)
- stretch your arm no further than your sleeve will reach
- trick up (one's) sleeve
- up (one's) sleeve
- up one's sleeve, to have something
- up sleeve
- up your sleeve
- wear (one's) heart on (one's) sleeve
- wear (something) on (one's) sleeve
- wear heart on sleeve
- wear one's heart on one's sleeve
- wear one's heart on one's sleeve, to
- wear your heart on your sleeve
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