cut the cards
Example Sentences
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Say a blackjack dealer asked Forte to cut the cards.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 2021
So you trust your mother, but you cut the cards.
From Slate ● Oct. 22, 2020
Still, you can trust your mother, but cut the cards.
From New York Times ● Jun. 6, 2011
Once, in a moment of rare relaxation, Felt, a crack poker player, summed up his basic attitude in a paraphrase from Mister Dooley: "Trust everybody, but always cut the cards."
From Time Magazine Archive
George cut the cards again and put out a solitaire lay, slowly and deliberately.
From "Of Mice and Men" by John Steinbeck
