have a card up your sleeve
to have an advantage that other people do not know about:
England have definitely been the weaker side, but I think they've still got one or two cards up their sleeve.
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Plotting & trapping
- be in league with sb idiom
- cahoots
- catch sb out
- chicanery
- cloak-and-dagger
- conspiratorial
- conspire
- entrap
- entrapment
- hatch
- honey trap
- plot
- plotter
- put-up job
- scheme
- set-up
- snare
- sting
- stratagem
- trap
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