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show one's hand1(In a card game) reveal one’s cards.If you have a king in your original hand and don't like your cards you can show your hand to the other player, discard all 5 cards, and pick a new hand of 5 cards from the top of the stock....- Once you have a straight of seven cards, you may show your hand face up on the table and say ‘Scatterbrain’.
- If requested by an opponent, you must show your hand to prove that you had only wild cards.
1.1Disclose one’s plans: he needed hard evidence, and to get it he would have to show his hand...- And when they came out, the judge basically showed his hand and said that he plans to keep these things sealed.
- After weeks of speculation, Rangers finally showed their hand when they faxed a formal offer to Rovers yesterday afternoon.
- They were thought unlikely to show their hand until the details of the redundancy package were fully sorted by the group.
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