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turn up trumps
Idioms and Phrases
End well, succeed, as in Some brief courtships and hasty marriages turn up trumps . This expression alludes to card games in which trump cards are superior to cards of other suits. [Late 1700s]Example Sentences
Of around 200 emails from outside my organisation, many were from mailing lists I signed up to in the dim and distant past - I'm not sure I still need Opec's Daily Digest of oil prices, but maybe Music Ally's daily bulletin from the music industry will turn up trumps one day.
Now he needs to turn up trumps on the innovation front, too.
But the difficulty with manipulating reality and civil lists thus is that scenarios can turn bad as well as turn up trumps.
Except for the barrister, who dies waving a white flag in the belief that the totalitarian enemy will respect Geneva conventions, they all turn up trumps at the end, just as Britain was to do at the last minute when war came in 1939.
Why shouldn't he turn up trumps a second time?
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Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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