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
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He means so that no will-breaking brothers or cousins can stack the cards agin you.
From Money Magic A Novel by Garland, Hamlin
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
What nerve does it take to stack the cards against a dub?
From The Enchanted Canyon by Morrow, Honoré
I have a hard game ahead of me and I'm going to stack the cards.
From The Garden of Eden by Brand, Max