stack the cards
Example Sentences
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"You can't really stack the cards against a character much higher."
From Time Magazine Archive
The posse in the valley—that was what would stack the cards against them.
From The Heart of the Range by White, William Patterson
A man out here don't holler if you beat him fair, but if you stack the cards on him, that's different.
From Heart's Desire by Hough, Emerson
When their hearts is touched they're likely to stack the cards, look at the bottom of the deck, an' lie—beggin' your pardon, ma'am.
From Brown Wolf and Other Jack London Stories Chosen and Edited By Franklin K. Mathiews by London, Jack
When their hearts is touched they’re likely to stack the cards, look at the bottom of the deck, an’ lie like the devil—beggin’ your pardon, ma’am.
From Love of Life and Other Stories by Bull, Charles Livingston
