to stack the cards

  • 1stack the cards — {v. phr.} 1. To arrange cards secretly and dishonestly for the purpose of cheating. * /The gambler had stacked the cards against Bill./ 2. To arrange things unfairly for or against a person; have things so that a person has an unfair advantage or …

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  • 2stack the cards — {v. phr.} 1. To arrange cards secretly and dishonestly for the purpose of cheating. * /The gambler had stacked the cards against Bill./ 2. To arrange things unfairly for or against a person; have things so that a person has an unfair advantage or …

    Dictionary of American idioms

  • 3stack\ the\ cards — v. phr. 1. To arrange cards secretly and dishonestly for the purpose of cheating. The gambler had stacked the cards against Bill. 2. To arrange things unfairly for or against a person; have things so that a person has an unfair advantage or… …

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  • 4stack\ the\ cards\ against\ one — v. phr. 1. To arrange cards secretly and dishonestly for the purpose of cheating. The gambler had stacked the cards against Bill. 2. To arrange things unfairly for or against a person; have things so that a person has an unfair advantage or… …

    Словарь американских идиом

  • 5stack the cards — arrange things (unfairly) for or against a person They are stacking the cards against him with their constant demands for more and more qualifications for the job …

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  • 6stack the cards — arrange cards in a specific order; obtain advantages in advance through shrewdness …

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  • 7stack the cards — Synonyms and related words: beat, beguile of, bilk, bunco, burn, cheat, chisel, chouse, chouse out of, cog, cog the dice, con, cook up, cozen, crib, defraud, diddle, do in, do out of, euchre, finagle, fix, flam, fleece, flimflam, fob, frame,… …

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  • 8(the) cards are stacked against you — the cards/odds/are stacked against you phrase used for saying that you are likely to fail, often because people are being unfair Thesaurus: likely to failsynonym unfairsynonym …

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  • 9stack the cards (to) —  Dishonestly prearrange something …

    American business jargon

  • 10Stack the Deck — is a pricing game on the American television game show The Price Is Right . Debuting October 9, 2006 and created by Bart Eskander [http://www.golden road.net/index.php?topic=6912.0] , it is played for a car and uses grocery items.Game playThe… …

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