have the cards

English

Verb

have the cards (third-person singular simple present has the cards, present participle having the cards, simple past and past participle had the cards)

  1. Ellipsis of have the cards in one's hands.
    • 2025 March 7, Andrew Roth, Luke Harding, quoting Donald Trump, “Trump says it is ‘easier’ to deal with Russia and Putin ‘wants to end the war’”, in The Guardian‎[1], →ISSN:
      “I’m finding it more difficult, frankly, to deal with Ukraine. And they don’t have the cards,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Friday.
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