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/trʌmp
/- The winner of the first trick must lead a trump to the second trick if he holds one.
- If a trump is led, the other players may play any cards, and if several trumps are played to a trick the last one wins.
- The suit of the card led by the pitcher to the first trick becomes trumps for that deal.
- After the cut, the bottom card of the pack is shown to everyone and its suit is trumps.
- In scenario 3, if a person with 5 trumps has the Ace of trump, she starts.
- Your opponent has only one card left and you know it is the ace of trumps.
- If using tarot cards, the trump suits of both decks are removed except for a single copy of The Fool.
- The modern tarot pack comes from an Italian tarrochi deck with 22 trumps.
- Those favouring an armistice hoped that a negative reply from Roosevelt would deprive their opponents of a valuable trump card.
- Party strategists are well aware his stewardship of the economy is their trump card.
- Their trump card is a close link with the government which can give them quick and exclusive access to official news and information.
- "He's a trump," said Dick, enthusiastically.
- "He's a trump!" said Clifford, "and if he swears the world is as good and pure as his own heart, I'll swear he's right."
- "By Jove, he's a trump!" said the Inspector.
- The fourth to play after a non-trump card has been trumped by his partner, when unable to either follow suit or overtrump, must undertrump even if his partner holds the trick.
- For the sake of clarity, it is worth pointing out that where a lead of a plain suit has been trumped by the second player to a trick and the third to play also has no cards in the suit led, then the third player must still overtrump if possible.
- You will eventually learn to keep track of which suits each player is trumping, what cards are still out against you, and how many more counters you need to pull to make your bid.
- The Southern judiciary countered the argument of natural law by evoking the argument that, within a democracy, positive law trumped natural law.
- The law is a guide, but we need to have enough common sense, as Americans, to know when to trump legal arguments when there are obviously stronger moral and/or utilitarian arguments around.
- You would, to be sure, be implicitly admitting that social factors can easily trump intrinsic differences, except that you'd be thinking that these factors work in women's favor.
Synonyms
Phrases
come (or turn) up trumps
Phrasal verbs
trump something up
Origin
Early 16th century: alteration of triumph, once used in card games in the same sense.
The word trump, ‘a playing card of the suit chosen to rank above the others’, is an alteration of triumph, which was once used in the same sense. The Latin source of triumph (Late Middle English) triumphus probably came from Greek thriambos ‘hymn to the god Bacchus’. In ancient Rome a triumph was the grand entry of a victorious general into the city. In some card games the trump suit is chosen before each game, while in others it is the suit of the last card dealt, which is turned over to show its face. This gives rise to the phrases come or turn up trumps, ‘to produce a better outcome than expected’, reinforced by the fact that a hand with many trump cards is likely to be a winning hand. In the expression the last trump, trump is a form of trumpet (Middle English). The instrument had strong military associations and comes ultimately from the same source as trump. Officers making public announcements would sometimes blow a blast on a trumpet to get people's attention. To blow your own trumpet comes from the idea of going out into a public space and making an announcement about yourself.
Rhymes
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/trʌmp/- If you were standing in a lift, and someone trumped loudly for half a minute continuously, would you say "yes, impressive!", or would you say "LET ME OUT OF HERE"?
- As morning broke in the windowless Bedsit, Emma peered wearily out of the bed they'd shared as Michelle trumped loudly and proudly into the already stale air.
Origin
Middle English: from Old French trompe, of Germanic origin; probably imitative.
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