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

Later on he went to Pilar Ternera with the hope that the cards would see more than the diggers, but she began by explaining that any attempt would be useless unless Úrsula cut the cards.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez