Crossword clues for on the cards
on the cards
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Card \Card\ (k[aum]rd), n. [F. carte, fr. L. charta paper, Gr. ? a leaf of paper. Cf. Chart.]
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A piece of pasteboard, or thick paper, blank or prepared for various uses; as, a playing card; a visiting card; a card of invitation; pl. a game played with cards.
Our first cards were to Carabas House.
--Thackeray. A published note, containing a brief statement, explanation, request, expression of thanks, or the like; as, to put a card in the newspapers. Also, a printed programme, and (fig.), an attraction or inducement; as, this will be a good card for the last day of the fair.
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A paper on which the points of the compass are marked; the dial or face of the mariner's compass.
All the quartere that they know I' the shipman's card.
--Shak. (Weaving) A perforated pasteboard or sheet-metal plate for warp threads, making part of the Jacquard apparatus of a loom. See Jacquard.
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An indicator card. See under Indicator. Business card, a card on which is printed an advertisement or business address. Card basket
A basket to hold visiting cards left by callers.
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A basket made of cardboard.
Card catalogue. See Catalogue.
Card rack, a rack or frame for holding and displaying business or visiting card.
Card table, a table for use inplaying cards, esp. one having a leaf which folds over.
On the cards, likely to happen; foretold and expected but not yet brought to pass; -- a phrase of fortune tellers that has come into common use; also, according to the programme.
Playing card, cards used in playing games; specifically, the cards cards used playing which and other games of chance, and having each pack divided onto four kinds or suits called hearts, diamonds, clubs, and spades. The full or whist pack contains fifty-two cards.
To have the cards in one's own hands, to have the winning cards; to have the means of success in an undertaking.
To play one's cards well, to make no errors; to act shrewdly.
To play snow one's cards, to expose one's plants to rivals or foes.
To speak by the card, to speak from information and definitely, not by guess as in telling a ship's bearing by the compass card.
Visiting card, a small card bearing the name, and sometimes the address, of the person presenting it.
Wiktionary
a. (context idiomatic English) Likely to occur, probable.
Usage examples of "on the cards".
His eyes eventually came down on the cards spread out before him on the coffee table.
She was complimented on the cards she had held, and embarked upon the third encounter.
Teeth clamped on a long-stemmed pipe, Mat opened his coat a bit more and tried to concentrate on the cards lying facedown in front of him, and on the coins spilled in the middle of the table.
The Diviners alone, it was said, knew how to translate the complex images painted on the cards.
Today the filth on the cards was, after all, just human depravity.
The other pictures on the cards, with their pretensions to love and physical pleasure, only hid this terrible truth away for a while.
Christian symbolism even came to be used on the cards, perhaps in an effort to try to make them more palatable to Church officials.
She couldn't concentrate any better on the cards than she could on the diary.
Also, he's a prude and he'll call you a tart and anyway I'll probably have a fight with him, it's on the cards.
The tables were all made up, and it was while he stood watching the play of a hand, his eyes on the cards and his mind dwelling obstinately and uneasily on Mr.