cards

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/kɑɹdz/

noun 1

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ADJ.

all, fun, fun, new, popular

We played with all the new cards we got for our birthday.

VERB + CARDS

cheat, cheating, credit, feel, game, let's, like, play

I felt like he was cheating at cards during the poker game last night.

CARDS + NOUN

chance, fave

My fave cards are the ones with vintage designs from the 1950s.

PREP.

in, on, with

I kept all my old birthday cards in a box under my bed.

ADV.

already, carefully, instead

She carefully shuffled the cards before dealing them to the other players.

Definitions

noun

Card games.

He's a fan of cards.

Cards is my fave game, above any board game.

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Idioms & Phrases

house of cards

A structure made by stacking playing cards in a pyramidal fashion.

in the cards

Destined or fated to happen; predicted or foreseen.

I don't think another child is in the cards for them.

play one's cards right

To act correctly; to make the right moves.

If you play your cards right, you'll get the promotion you've been waiting for.

on the cards

Likely to occur, probable.

Wolves, sensing the comeback of all comebacks was on the cards, kept pressing and set up an exciting finish when Ronald Zubar's header was judged to have crossed the line, even tho

keep one's cards close to one's chest

To avoid revealing one's thoughts, circumstances, or plans.

Balthus has always kept his cards close to his chest. When I asked him if Summertime was a transcription of Poussin's Echo and Narcissus—a variant of his lost copy—he did not reply

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He's a fan of cards.

Wiktionary

Cards is my fave game, above any board game.

Wiktionary

"I feel like playing cards." "So do I."

Tatoeba · #1527

Place the deck of cards on the oaken table.

Tatoeba · #1536

We killed time by playing cards.

Tatoeba · #23139

Have you written all the New Year's cards already?

Tatoeba · #31174

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