Definition of play one's cards right
- If I play my cards right, I'll be able to graduate next year.
: swordplay
: game, sport
: the conduct, course, or action of a game
: to engage in sport or recreation : frolic
: to have sexual relations
: to move aimlessly about : trifle
: to cleanse, disentangle, and collect together (fibers) by the use of cards preparatory to spinning
: an instrument or machine for carding fibers that consists usually of bent wire teeth set closely in rows in a thick piece of leather fastened to a back
: an implement for raising a nap on cloth
: playing card
: a game played with cards
: card playing
: to place or fasten on or by means of a card
: to provide with a card
: to list or record on a card
: righteous, upright
: being in accordance with what is just, good, or proper
: conforming to facts or truth : correct
: qualities (such as adherence to duty or obedience to lawful authority) that together constitute the ideal of moral propriety or merit moral approval
: something to which one has a just claim: such as
: the power or privilege to which one is justly entitled
: according to right
: in the exact location, position, or moment : precisely
: in a suitable, proper, or desired manner
: to do justice to : redress the injuries of
: justify, vindicate
: avenge
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