ace up one's sleeve
袖里乾坤,妙计,谋略,袖珍宝
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Definitions
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- : a playing card or die marked with or having the value indicated by a single spot: He dealt me four aces in the first hand.
- : a single spot or mark on a playing card or die.
- : Also called serv·ice ace. a placement made on a service.any placement.a serve that the opponent fails to touch.the point thus scored.
- : a fighter pilot credited with destroying a prescribed number or more of enemy aircraft, usually five, in combat.
- : a very skilled person; expert; adept: an ace at tap dancing.
- : Slang. a one-dollar bill.
- : Slang. a close friend.
- : Golf. Also called hole in one. a shot in which the ball is driven from the tee into the hole in one stroke: He hit a 225-yard ace on the first hole.a score of one stroke made on such a shot: to card an ace.
- : Slang. a barbiturate or amphetamine capsule or pill.
- : a very small quantity, amount, or degree; a particle: not worth an ace.
- : Slang. a grade of A; the highest grade or score.
Phrases
- ace in the hole
- ace it
- ace out
- hold all the aces
- within an ace of
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
Meanwhile, Montas has looked like an ace with a splitter he added that produced the fifth-best whiff-per-swing mark of its kind last season.
A sleeper NL Cy Young candidate is ace Chris Paddack, who was limited to 140 ⅔ innings as a rookie last season by the cautious Padres.
Staff ace Max Scherzer has enjoyed seven-straight top-five Cy Young finishes and shows little sign of slowing.
Do you have a high ACE score — adverse childhood experiences.
There’s also the fact that painkillers are, by their nature, a desirable medication — they literally make your pain stop — so you can imagine patients demanding them a bit more adamantly than they’d demand a statin or an ACE inhibitor.
An ace comedic turn that, in lesser hands, would come off as one-note.
My grandfather lived fast and large—he liked his liquor and his tobacco, and he was also an ace gambler.
Time and time again, we see women being asked to ace some arbitrary test in order to be deemed model victims.
He is getting ready to watch Jack Morris, the Tigers ace, go for win number nineteen against the Toronto Blue Jays.
After the war Valerie married Peter Middleton, a wartime RAF flying ace.
He has drawn a knave and a six; he takes another card; this turns out to be an ace.
It must be an ace or a king and queen above the average if only two suits are protected.
Without an ace, four kings, two queens and a knave are required in order to justify the declaration.
With three honours any two of which are in sequence (not to the ace) the player should lead the higher of the sequence.