| 词汇 | have a card up one-s sleeve |
| 词源 | have a card up one’s sleeve. To have an unexpected hidden advantage. The expression most probably comes from gam- bling with a cardsharp in a rigged game of cards in the West, but is now mostly used figuratively. To have an ace up one’s sleeve (qv) is also often heard but is recorded earlier. One Brit- ish politician accepted Prime Minister Gladstone always hav- ing a card up his sleeve, but did object to his invariably insinu- ating that “the Almighty had placed it there.” |
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