not playing with a full deck
1not playing with a full deck — not rational, not all there People say he s not stable that he s not playing with a full deck …
2not playing with a full deck — I informal mentally deficient II see deck * * * not playing with a full deck see ↑deck, 1 • • • Main Entry: ↑full …
3(not) playing with a full deck (of cards) — Someone who is not playing with a full deck (of cards) lacks intelligence or does not have full mental abilities. Old Mrs.Whitehead was not playing with a full deck when she bought that fancy lawnmower! …
4not playing with a full deck — Meaning Stupid. Origin Lacking the required intelligence, as a card game being played with a card missing …
5not playing with a full deck — (Slang) mentally incompetent or unstable; insane …
6play with a full deck — in. to operate as if one were mentally sound. (Usually in the negative. One cannot play cards with a partial deck.) □ That guy’s not playing with a full deck. □ Look sharp, you dummies! Pretend you are playing with a full deck …
7play with a full deck — to be mentally alert Euphemistic only in the negative: The writer of that piece of filth is obviously not playing with a full deck. (Sanders, 1992) And see fifty cards in the pack …
8deck — /dɛk / (say dek) noun 1. a horizontal platform extending from side to side of a ship or of part of a ship, forming a covering for the space below and itself serving as a floor. 2. any platform or part suggesting the deck of a ship. 3. a floor,… …
9Playing card — Blue Rider back Bicycle Playing Cards by USPCC …
10Stripped deck — A stripped deck is a set of playing cards from which cards have been removed. This kind of deck is used in certain poker variants, and the cards that are removed are usually low ranking ones. For example, the Australian game of Manila uses a 32… …
