| 词汇 | the cards beat all the players |
| 词源 | the cards beat all the players. The philosophy that fate or luck is all, despite our efforts. It is not certain with whom the saying originates, but Ralph Waldo Emerson was familiar with it, meditating on the words in his essay “Nominalist and Real- ist” (1844): “For though gamesters say that the cards beat all the players, though they were never so skillful, yet in the contest we are now considering the players are also the game, and share the powers of the cards.” |
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