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What does come up trumps mean?

- moodler

Posted by moodler in Britain | 1 comment

Idiom

I’ve heard this said “everything has come up trumps.” Is that good or bad?

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2-17-12

Ric says:

It means to have what is needed to deal with a challenging situation. Just as in card games like Bridge, 500, Euka where a particular suite is trumps. A small trump -say a 2 will defeat an Ace of a non trump suite – it has come up trumps

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