play one's cards right

: 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