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a playing card in the suit that has been declared trumps
the ace of trumps is a sure winner
How To Use trump card In A Sentence
- The promise of tax cuts proved, as always, to be the Republican Party's trump card.
- But then he decided to play his trump card .
- Vienna's trump cards include concerts in the palaces where Mozart made music.
- Hilary Clinton's status as an erstwhile Obama rival might undermine the traditional trump card of a secretary of state.
- The other trump card of the pessimists, erotic desire, is notoriously restless and insecure, and apt to deliver only partial fulfilments.
- China's Trump Card Once mocked as over-designed and under-occupied, Shanghai's Pudong district is now a bright spot. Shanghai's Pudong, Once Soulless, Rises Up
- This was his trump card, and he wanted to make sure it got played, even if the commission was too docile to press for it.
- Their trump card, so they thought, was an article in which Johnson had used the term 'picaninny', albeit in the context of a sarcastic vignette about Blair's supposedly patronising attitude to his visitees, on a world tour. Harry's Place
- She holds the trump card after breaking the world record three times this year.
- The trump card is nostalgia, but is that enough to carry a film?
