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

I have a hard game ahead of me and I'm going to stack the cards.

From The Garden of Eden by Brand, Max

When their hearts is touched they’re likely to stack the cards, look at the bottom of the deck, an’ lie like the devil—beggin’ your pardon, ma’am. 

From Love of Life and Other Stories by Bull, Charles Livingston

A man out here don't holler if you beat him fair, but if you stack the cards on him, that's different.

From Heart's Desire by Hough, Emerson

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