| 单词 | cards on the table |
| 释义 | > as lemmascards on the table f. to put one's cards on the table and variants: to allow one's plans or intentions to be known; to be completely candid. Cf. to show one's hand, to show one's cards. Also †to play (with) one's cards on the table: to be open and honest in dealing with others. Hence elliptically: cards on the table. ΚΠ 1830 Observer 6 Dec. They will ‘play their cards on the table’—will proceed in an open, straight-forward course of foreign policy. 1868 R. Browning Ring & Bk. I. iii. 176 Come, cards on table; was it true or false? 1907 E. P. Oppenheim Secret viii. 55 I began to think that I had been rash to lay my cards upon the table. 1914 G. B. Shaw Fanny's Last Play iii, in Misalliance 198 Tramps are often shameless; but theyre never sincere. Swells—if I may use that convenient name for the upper classes—play much more with their cards on the table. 1923 J. M. Murry Pencillings 195 He seems to put his cards on the table and to be saying in the friendliest way: ‘That's my opinion. What's yours?’ 1925 W. Deeping Sorrell & Son xvi. 155 There is no reason why we should put all our cards on the table. 2020 @JohnSoros2 27 May in twitter.com (accessed 2 June 2020) He needs to put his cards on the table and finally show some proof. < as lemmas |
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