| 单词 | to play one's last card |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto play one's last card a. to play one's last card: to use one's last remaining strategy or resource in attempting to achieve an objective, all others having been exhausted. ΚΠ 1648 R. Wilkinson Saints Trav. Canaan 77 How many under a state of flashes (which I may say is almost the last Carde Satan can play in a soule to deceive him in his transformings) doe live in most great joy. 1710 Brit. Apollo 15–17 Feb. Don Gimcrack his last Card has plaid. 1870 H. S. Holland Impressions Ammergau Passion-Play 14 Driven to desperation, they play their last card and call in the rabble. 1956 A. Wilson Anglo-Saxon Attitudes i. iii. 96 Mrs. Middleton played her last card, ‘I know, children,’ she said, ‘the Vicar is hungry, that is what it is.’ 2015 Daily Independent (Lagos) (Nexis) 11 Feb. The president played his last card: convoke a National Council of State meeting. < as lemmas |
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