| 单词 | to make grand slam |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto make (a) grand slam a. Cards. The winning of all the tricks of one hand in a card game; esp. a contract to win all thirteen tricks in bridge. Also in to make (a) grand slam. See slam n.2 2b. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > [noun] > actions or tactics > winning or losing points or tricks trick1607 rub1613 slam1660 vole1680 sans prendre1728 grand slam1800 single1850 1800 Sporting Mag. 16 186/2 Rules for the Game of Cards called Boston... The highest [declaration] is Grand Slam, that is, undertaking to get the thirteen tricks. 1840 T. S. Fay Countess Ida I. xv. 119 Digby, of course, had lost. Their adversaries had made ‘grand slam’. 1892 Pall Mall Gaz. 14 May 3/1 In two of the ‘hands’ to be played the ‘grand slam’ is won. 1919 D. Cooper Diary 23 Jan. (2005) 92 My partner had the knaves of Spades and Diamonds and I made grand slam. 1928 Daily Express 21 May 3/7 Jack, with a pitying smile for Sam's heroic flag-flying, doubled—and Sam made a grand slam. 1958 Listener 23 Oct. 669/2 For me, the Queen of trumps never drops in a grand slam. 1993 Bridge Nov. 9/2 This is one of those rare hands where it is actually pointless to bid a grand slam. 2014 Daily News (S. Afr.) (Nexis) 27 May 7 West found himself in a bridge player's dreamland—on lead against a grand slam holding two aces! < as lemmas |
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