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单词 call for trumps
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call for trumps
(b) Whist and Bridge. More fully call for trumps. A signal made to one's partner by playing a particular type of card that he or she should lead with a trump. Cf. to call for trumps at call v. Phrasal verbs 2. Now rare.
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1865 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Apr. 462/2 The hints he gives as to leads and the call for trumps are good.
1872 Westm. Papers Sept. 89 A game was actually lost very recently by a player throwing the eight instead of the seven. His partner, thinking it was a call for trumps, led them, drew them, and prevented his trumping a suit of which he had none.
1887 Temple-bar Mag. Apr. 551 My partner..will lead trumps on the first opportunity in obedience to my ‘call’.
1901 C. J. Melrose Bridge Whist 40 If on your partner's lead of a small card you play the ten and on the next round you drop the nine, it is a call.
1969 Amarillo (Texas) Globe-Times 22 Oct. 50/3 When East failed to answer the first call for trumps, declarer saw that his only chance was to establish North's club suit.
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to call for trumps
5. intransitive. Whist and Bridge. To signal to one's partner by playing a particular type of card that he or she should lead with (a trump card). Frequently in to call for trumps.
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to call for ——1840
1840 H. Cockton Life Valentine Vox xix. 150 I will not descend to argue the point, but in order to prove that I did not call for trumps, there are my cards, Sir.
1903 Washington Post 7 June 11/1 When your adversary has shown strength in trumps, either by leading or calling for them.
1910 T. H. S. Escott Edward Bulwer xiii. 321 It was here that their leader, Lord Henry Bentinck, first introduced the method of calling for trumps known afterwards as the ‘blue Peter’.
2009 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 19 Dec. c10 In six hearts, you win the spade lead with dummy's ace and call for the trump queen.
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