cards

[cards]

A game played with playing cards

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Noun
a game played with playing cards


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Usage Examples

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

I've got some incredible fans actually - so loyal and they make me birthday cards and Christmas cards. I got this package of poems and artwork based around the songs. They've got this thing called 'Floetry' where they all have to put in artwork. They've set up their own competitions and stuff which is kind of amazing.

In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.

A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.

Imagine if you had baseball cards that showed all the performance stats for your people: batting averages, home runs, errors, ERAs, win/loss records. You could see what they did well and poorly and call on the right people to play the right positions in a very transparent way.

Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don't get sick you're missing half the fun.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

Consular cards were not designed to be identification and no treaty recognizes them as such. Legal travelers, visitors and long-term residents carried passports, visas or green cards for that purpose.

Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.

Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.

If you are worried about job security and do not have an adequate emergency fund (ideally eight months' worth of living expenses stashed away in a federally insured bank or credit union), you need to focus more on saving money than paying down the balance on your credit cards.

Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.

Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.

I don't turn to greeting cards for wisdom and advice, but they are a fine reflection of the general drift of the culture.

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