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单词 he can give cards and spades
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he (she, etc.) can give cards and spades
g. slang (originally and chiefly U.S.). he (she, etc.) can give cards and spades and variants: used to suggest that a person, organization, etc., is so far superior to an opponent or rival that even a significant handicap would not bridge the gap between them.Apparently alluding to the scoring system in the card game cassino (cassino n.).
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1861 J. T. Booth Jrnl. in Another Day in Lincoln's Army (2007) 94 I believe Colonel Crook could give cards and spades and then learn them something.
1887 Daily Amer. (Nashville) 31 July 8/4 Jones is now batting terrifically hard and fielding superbly... He can give Nicol or Tebeau cards and spades in the game and then beat them out.
1913 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 22 Feb. 40/2 There were..extra-efficient steelmakers, like Carnegie, whose organizations, built up through forty years of efficiency, could give cards and spades to any and all rivals.
2019 @npetrikov 14 May in twitter.com (accessed 22 Apr. 2020) I thought Warren..was a jackass, but his City Council can give him cards and spades in the jackassery department.
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