词汇 | play with loaded dice |
词源 | play with loaded dice. Play with loaded dice and nothing is left to chance. Dice can be loaded with lead or other weights in such a way that a certain number will always or frequently come up. A gambler can then use them to his advantage by slipping them into a game and throwing all sevens, or by weighting them so that another player will shoot “craps” (“snake-eyes”: two ones; or “boxcars”: two sixes) on each roll. The practice is as old as the game of dice, but the expression seems to be a 20th-century Americanism. |
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