单词 | cold deck |
释义 | > as lemmascold deck cold deck n. U.S. slang a pack of cards in which the cards have been arranged beforehand; also figurative. ΚΠ 1857 San Francisco Call 3 Apr. 4/2 He's got the thing all set to ring in a cold deck. a1875 ‘M. Twain’ Sketches in Wks. (1900) XIX. 360 I never have gambled from that day to this..without a ‘cold deck’ in my pocket. 1876 B. Harte Gabriel Conroy vi. ii You've been..playin' it very low down on my moral and religious nature, generally ringin' in a cold deck on my spiritual condition. 1887 F. Francis Saddle & Mocassin 225 Between them they put up a cold deck in a faro-box. < as lemmas |
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