| 词汇 | call the turn |
| 词源 | call the turn. Someone who calls the turn guesses correctly how an affair or transaction will turn out. The expression doesn’t derive from “turn out,” however, but comes to us in- stead from the card game faro , a very popular game in 19th- century America. One who calls the turn in faro, that is, guesses correctly what the last three cards turned over will be, wins at high odds from the bank. |
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