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a card up one's sleeveA plan or asset that is kept secret until it is needed: the alliances have been the key card up our sleeve...- Fortunately we had a card up our sleeve, a guest player by the name of Garfield Sobers and, within half an hour, he had shared eight wickets with [Fred] Trueman.
- One young man cried, ‘There was a card up your sleeve!’
- The same company that manufacturers some of the highest performing desktop harddisks, IBM, has a card up their sleeve for the notebook market.
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