Trump

Definition

trump /trʌmp/ (also trump card ) n (ဖဲကစားနည္းအခ်ဳိ႕၌) ႏိုင္ဖဲ၊ ဝွက္ဖဲ။ Hearts are trumps. ❍ He took my ace with a low trump. v ၁။ ~ sth (with sth) (ႏိုင္ဖဲျဖင့္) က်ယ္သည္။ She trumped my ace (with a six). ၂။ သူ႕ထက္တစ္ပန္းသာေအာင္ လုပ္သည္။ They were trumped by another firm that made a higher offer. ❏ come/ turn up trumps [ IDM ] ( infml ) ၁။ တကယ့္အားကိုးအားထားစရာျဖစ္သည္။ Nobody else in the family gave anything for the raffle, but my sister came up trumps. ၂။ အထူးအစြမ္းျပ ႏိုင္ခဲ့သည္။ The team turned up trumps on the day. ❏ trump card n (က) = TRUMP n (ခ) [ဥ] ႏိုင္ဖဲ။ ဝွက္ဖဲ။ အညႇာ။ Our rivals seem to hold all the trump cards. ❍ Finally she played her trump card and threatened to resign. ❏ trump sth up [ PHRV ] (usu passive) ဉာဏ္ဆင္သည္။ အကြက္ဆင္သည္။ arrested on a trumped-up charge.

Examples

1. ‘If a trump is led
2. the other players may play any cards
3. and if several trumps are played to a trick the last one wins.’
4. ‘The player to the left of the dealer has the choice of playing with the given trump or passing.’
5. ‘In this case it is illegal for any player to a play a trump on the first trick.’
6. ‘The winner of the first trick must lead a trump to the second trick if he holds one.’
7. ‘The suit of the card led by the pitcher to the first trick becomes trumps for that deal.’
8. ‘If no one plays a trump
9. then the highest ranking card to the suit led wins the book.’
10. ‘In scenario 3
11. if a person with 5 trumps has the Ace of trump
12. she starts.’
13. ‘Your opponent has only one card left and you know it is the ace of trumps.’
14. ‘There are five honours
15. viz: - Ace
16. King
17. Queen
18. Knave and Ten
19. if trumps are declared.’
20. ‘After the cut
21. the bottom card of the pack is shown to everyone and its suit is trumps.’
22. ‘After the deal the First player (sitting to the left of the dealer) declares how many of the six possible tricks he undertakes to win
23. and also chooses the trump suit or declares that the game will be played without trumps.’
24. ‘The Fool can be looked at as either the first of the tarot trumps… or the last.’
25. ‘Enchanters epitomize the tarot trump of ‘the fool’ relying on luck and intuition to guide their way.’
26. ‘In the greater arcana of the tarot
27. Mercury is always associated with the first trump
28. the Magus or Juggler - names which sum up the extremes of the planet
29. sage and trickster.’
30. ‘If using tarot cards
31. the trump suits of both decks are removed except for a single copy of The Fool.’
32. ‘The modern tarot pack comes from an Italian tarrochi deck with 22 trumps.’
33. ‘Triumphantly
34. Vince plays his trump card: he has captured Jon's admission on tape.’
35. ‘Which brings us to his third trump card: his incredible facility with words.’
36. ‘The trump card is nostalgia
37. but is that enough to carry a film?’
38. ‘However
39. the Beagle 2 team still has a trump card to play
40. Mars Express.’