Card Definition
- A secret resource or plan held in reserve:
a tough negotiator who had a number of cards up his sleeve.
- Likely or certain to happen:
My promotion to a higher position just isn't in the cards.
- To make frank and clear revelation, as of one's motives or intentions.
- a plan or resource kept secret or held in reserve
- likely or seemingly destined to happen
Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Card
- card up (one's) sleeve
- in the cards
- put
- card up one's sleeve
- in the cards
- put one's cards on the table
Origin of Card
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From Old French carde, from Old Provençal carda, deverbal from cardar, from Late Latin *carito, from Latin carrere (“to comb with a card”), from Proto-Indo-European *ker, *sker (“to cut”).
From Wiktionary
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From Middle English carde (“playing card”), from Old French carte, from Latin charta, from Ancient Greek χάρτης (chartēs, “paper, papyrus”).
From Wiktionary
Middle English carde from Old French carte from Latin charta paper made from papyrus from Greek khartēs
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
Middle English carde from Medieval Latin cardus from Latin carduus thistle
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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