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How to pronounce“card playing”in English

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In natural English speech, "card playing" appears in contexts such as: "proposing. Maybe he’s got something up his sleeve. This idiom comes from card playing, when one might cheat by hiding a card up their sleeve to his or her advantage. A variation to this idiom, to having something up your sleeve, is to have a trick up your sleeve.". Listen to the exact timestamped clip in the accompanying video with synchronized subtitles.

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proposing. Maybe he’s got something up his sleeve.

This idiom comes from card playing, when one might cheat by hiding a card up their sleeve to his or her advantage.

A variation to this idiom, to having something up your sleeve, is to have a trick up your sleeve.

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Definitions of “card playing”

noun

The playing of card games.

“It doesn’t seem accidental that the phrase “luck of the draw” can apply equally to cardplaying or gunslinging, or that the denouement of “Lucky You” — a showdown between Mr. Bana’s character and his nemesis, L. C., played by Robert Duvall — recalls not just the 52-card catharsis of “The Cincinnati Kid” but also the showdowns that climax many great westerns.”

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