| 单词 | to play on advantage |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto play on (also upon) advantage ΚΠ 1575 T. Churchyard 1st Pt. Chippes f. 50 (margin) St[r]ife onelye is sowed by foysting fellowes that followes fortune and playes on aduauntage. 1592 W. Warner Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) vii. xxxvi. 156 Howbeit, on aduantage play'd Gynetta all this while. 1668 C. Sedley Mulberry-garden ii. ii. 31 Your only way is To turn Rook and play upon advantage. 1672 T. Shadwell Miser i. i. 3 Cheat? we do play a little upon advantage I confess, (as many people of Quality and most Gentlemen that are Gamesters do.). 1839 F. Marryat Diary in Amer. II. 235 The gamblers on the Mississippi use a very refined phrase for ‘cheating’—‘playing the advantages over him.’ < as lemmas |
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