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a. (context idiomatic English) destined or fated to happen; predicted or foreseen.
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__NOTOC__ "In the Cards" is the penultimate episode of the fifth season of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. This episode marks Michael Dorn's directorial debut.
Usage examples of "in the cards".
Spector wanted to kill him and save the kid a lifetime of hell, but that wasn't, as they say, in the cards.
It's in the cards for her, if she doesn't find the right man - and that means a really gentle, sensitive, kindly student type who would be able to appreciate all those thoughts she has.
It's in the cards for her, if she doesn't find the right man -- and that means a really gentle, sensitive, kindly student type who would be able to appreciate all those thoughts she has.
I'm not sure of anything, Flora, except that a, rebellion is in the cards.
Im not sure of anything, Flora, except that a rebellion is in the cards.
Besides that, she wanted inside plumbing and it just wasn't in the cards for her to have it any time soon.
Well, it rsn't look like a trip to Babylon 5 is in the cards soon, and I don't think we should wait any nucr.
On the ninth ballot, ten of my supposed senatorial managers voted against me while the three who switched to me had been in the cards all along, as the press would say.
But there are many swords in the cards these days, which tell me there will be trouble.
Rex Miller seemed to think that there was more than luck in the cards Monsieur St.