英语词汇play with loaded dice的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

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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