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Definition of opening gambit in English: opening gambitnoun An introductory remark or stratagem, especially one designed to make social contact or secure one's own position. Example sentencesExamples - It's a terrific opening gambit - the sound effects as the cannonballs rip through the boat bring home the frailty of their ship and the audience is fully alert from that point on.
- It has, of course, been thoroughly modernized; all the adventure has been taken out of it; but the opening gambits in which a piece used to be sacrificed for the sake of early development proved unsound and therefore abandoned.
- This opening gambit allows the authors to suggest that the literature in this area is scant and that there are many unanswered questions.
- This looks like an opening gambit rather than a take it or leave it offer.
- It's an unusual opening gambit at what is supposed to be a formal interview.
- I think the BPA, as a leadership, is now moving on, but its opening gambit must have been, ‘We are doing this out of a necessity that the organisation is not listening to us and is mistreating us and is not representing us properly’.
- I notice that her opening gambit to me included no actual question or conversation starter and I was forced to dig myself out of the hole she had dug for me.
- It was the opening gambit of what is likely to become a frenzy.
- We exchanged the usual opening gambits of conversation and I ventured that she looked as if she had been working in her garden.
- Traditionally, courts have preferred to view an advertisement as an opening gambit in future negotiations for two reasons.
- This is not a good opening gambit if you're selling artificial insemination, but then that's the other thing about the country: they don't get their own innate, rude, mechanical, comic irony.
- His opening gambit was that it would improve the patient's healthcare by allowing more time in consultations.
- The unusual opening gambit of making friends by passing toilet paper notes under a toilet partition had paid dividends for Ian.
- I captured the pawn offered in his opening gambit.
- It was just a thought - pretty unprocessed, an opening gambit for discussion.
- More aggressive and driven, they now bore down on goal with more intent than they had mustered in the opening gambits.
- Note how his opening gambit and his disclaimers would still make acceptable introductory tactics today, especially when coming from a respected scholar in the field.
- A long term critic of the practical working of the Belfast Agreement, he outlines what the opening gambit of unionist negotiators should be.
- I rephrased my opening gambit into the more succinct, ‘Why not?’
- I don't think any of us really thought we were going to get 40 per cent, but that was an opening gambit and it was a negotiable figure.
Synonyms advantage, upper hand, edge, lead, whip hand, trump card
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