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(trumps, trumping, trumped) 1. In a game of cards, trumps is the suit which is chosen to have the highest value in one particular game. Hearts are trumps. N-UNCOUNT-COLL 2. In a game of cards, a trump is a playing card which belongs to the suit which has been chosen as trumps. He played a trump. N-COUNT 3. If you trump what someone has said or done, you beat it by saying or doing something else that seems better. The Socialists tried to trump this with their slogan... VERB: V n 4. Your trump card is something powerful that you can use or do, which gives you an advantage over someone. In the end, the Ten took their appeal to the Supreme Court; this, they had believed from the outset, would be their trump card... PHRASE: poss PHR 5. If you say that someone came up trumps, you mean that they did something successfully, often when they were not expected to. (BRIT) Dwayne has come up trumps with a goal worthy of winning any match. PHRASE: V inflects
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I. noun Etymology: Middle English trompe, from Anglo-French ~e, of Germanic origin; akin to Old High German trumba, ~a ~et Date: 14th century 1. a. ~et b. chiefly Scottish Jew's harp 2. a sound of or as if of ~eting the ~ of doom II. noun Etymology: alteration of 1triumph Date: 1529 1. a. a card of a suit any of whose cards will win over a card that is not of this suit — called also ~ card b. the suit whose cards are ~s for a particular hand — often used in plural 2. a decisive overriding factor or final resource — called also ~ card 3. a dependable and exemplary person III. verb Date: 1586 transitive verb 1. to get the better of ; override where ambition invariably ~s loyalty — Michael Kramer 2. to play a ~ on (a card or trick) when another suit was led intransitive verb to play a ~ when another suit was led ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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1. n. & v. --n. 1 a playing-card of a suit ranking above the others. 2 an advantage esp. involving surprise. 3 colloq. a a helpful or admired person. b Austral. & NZ a person in authority. --v. 1 a tr. defeat (a card or its player) with a trump. b intr. play a trump card when another suit has been led. 2 tr. colloq. gain a surprising advantage over (a person, proposal, etc.). Phrases and idioms trump card 1 a card belonging to, or turned up to determine, a trump suit. 2 colloq. a a valuable resource. b a surprise move to gain an advantage. trump up fabricate or invent (an accusation, excuse, etc.) (on a trumped-up charge). turn up trumps Brit. colloq. 1 turn out better than expected. 2 be greatly successful or helpful. Etymology: corrupt. of TRIUMPH in the same (now obs.) sense 2. n. archaic a trumpet-blast. Phrases and idioms the last trump the trumpet-blast to wake the dead on Judgement Day. Etymology: ME f. OF trompe f. Frank.: prob. imit. ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. козырь, козырная карта trump suit —- козырная масть trump ace, ace of trumps —- козырной туз to play a trump —- козырнуть to have all the trumps in one's hand —- иметь на руках все козыри to call no trump —- не называть козырей, играть без козырей to hold the old trumps, to be long in trumps —- иметь много козырей 2. pl. козыри, козырная масть 3. разг. славный малый he behaved like a regular trump —- он держался молодцом Id: to have all the trumps in one's hand —- иметь все преимущества, быть в выигрышном положении, быть хозяином положения Id: to put smb. to (his) trumps —- карт. заставить кого-л. козырять; заставить прибегнуть к последнему средству; поставить кого-л. в затруднительное положение Id: to turn up trumps —- (неожиданно) окончиться благополучно; оказаться более удачным, чем можно было предположить Id: he always turns up trumps —- ему всегда везет, он очень везучий, он везунчик 4. карт. козырять; бить козырем 5. превзойти, побить 6. сфабрикованный a trump charge —- сфабрикованное обвинение 7. уст. труба 8. уст. книж. трубный глас Id: the last trump, the trump of doom —- (архангельская) труба, которая зазвучит в день страшного суда 9. редк. трубить; возвещать трубным звуком ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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up выдумать; сфабриковать; to trump up a charge against smb. сфабриковать обвинение против кого-л. TRUMP I 1. noun 1) козырь; to play a trump - козырнуть; to put a person to his trumps - заставить козырять; fig. заставить прибегнуть к последнему средству; to have all the trumps in ones hand - иметь на руках все козыри; fig. быть хозяином положения 2) coll. славный малый 3) attr. козырной; trump card - козырь, козырная карта; fig. верное дело, верное средство to turn up trumps coll. - (неожиданно) окончиться благополучно, счастливо 2. v. 1) козырять; бить козырем 2) превзойти (кого-л.) - trump up II noun obs.; poet. трубный глас ...Англо-русский словарь
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~1 n 1 a card from the suit (=one of the four types of card in a set) that has been chosen to have a higher value than the other suits in a particular game 2 trumps also trump AmE the suit1 (3) chosen to have a higher value than the other suits in a particular game (Hearts are trumps.) 3 come up trumps/turn up trumps to provide what is needed, especially unexpectedly and at the last moment (Paul came up trumps and managed to borrow a car for us.) ~2 v to play a trump that beats someone else's card in a game trump sth up phr v to use false information to make someone seem guilty of a crime (They had trumped the whole thing up to get rid of him.) (- see also trumpedup) ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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