10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GET ONE'S CARDS»
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get one's cards in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
get one's cards and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Wordsworth Dictionary of Idioms
... get one's cards (inf) to be dismissed (esp from one's job): The workmen knew
that as soon as the building was finished most of them would get their cards.
have/keep a card up one's sleeve to have prepared (but not revealed) an
argument, ...
Elizabeth McLaren Kirkpatrick, C. M. Schwarz, 1993
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Rajpal Dictionary Of English Idioms & Phrases
... having run a marathon race, I felt the necessity of getting my breath Get one's
cards: Be told to leave * On getting one's cards one must leave immediately
rather than hanging around Get one's eye in: Follow with one's eyes in the
movement ...
... to head towards.] capital make capital out of (something) to use (a situation,
event etc) for one's own advantage: The politician delivered a clever, witty
speech, making capital out of his opponent's failure to appear. card get one's
cards (inf) to ...
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cards) on the cards i5Jf&M ; aim^^ftMtfil (It's quite on the card.', that some good
news may come. "^^HHjf^W&f JHJft * O [ftM* to get one's cards (= to get one's ...
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Chabers 21st Century Dictionary
get one's cards colloq to be dismissed from one's job. • have a card up one's
sleeve in an argument or contest: to have something prepared, which can be
used to one's advantage, but which has not yet been revealed to one's
opponents.
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English/German Dictionary of Idioms: Supplement to the ...
(to teil s.o. that) be/... can collect bis cards Papier: j. kann sich seine Papiere
abholen to get one's cards Papier seine Papiere kriegen/bekommen to be given
one's cards Papier: seine Papiere kriegen/bekommen to hand in one's cards ...
Professor Hans Schemann, 2013
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Sterling Dictionary of Idioms
... that they were guilty of stealing. get one's cards be dismissed When some
discrepancy was noticed in his accounts, he got his cards from management.
make a card win a trick with a particular card He showed his skill in the game of
cards by ...
8
Advanced Learner's Dictionary
... National Insurance and other papers of an employee, held by the employer:
get one's cards when one is sacked have a card up one's sleeve have something
hidden for an emergency, put one's cards on the table be open about one's plans
.
9
Shorter Slang Dictionary
As opposed to the top (copy). carby see carb. cardie or cardy a cardigan. Since
around 1968. cards in to ask for (one's) cards, to leave a job voluntarily, to resign;
in to get one's cards, to be dismissed; in to give (sb) their cards, to dismiss (sb).
Paul Beale, Eric Partridge, Rosalind Fergusson, 2003
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The Chambers Dictionary
... moves freely laid open; cooling card (Shakesp) anything that discourages, or
dashes hopes; get one's cards to be dismissed from one's employment; house of
cards a card-castle, cards built up into storeys; any flimsy or precarious structure,
...
