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===Etymology=== |
===Etymology=== |
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# The playing of [[card game]]s. |
# The playing of [[card game]]s. |
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|passage=It doesn’t seem accidental that the phrase “luck of the draw” can apply equally to '''cardplaying''' or gunslinging, or that the denouement of “Lucky You” — a showdown between Mr. Bana’s character and his nemesis, L. C., played by Robert Duvall — recalls not just the 52-card catharsis of “The Cincinnati Kid” but also the showdowns that climax many great westerns.}} |
|passage=It doesn’t seem accidental that the phrase “luck of the draw” can apply equally to '''cardplaying''' or gunslinging, or that the denouement of “Lucky You” — a showdown between Mr. Bana’s character and his nemesis, L. C., played by Robert Duvall — recalls not just the 52-card catharsis of “The Cincinnati Kid” but also the showdowns that climax many great westerns.}} |
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Revision as of 04:33, 29 September 2019
English
Etymology
Noun
cardplaying (uncountable)
- The playing of card games.
- 2007 April 29, John Anderson, “Love and Loneliness on the Las Vegas Strip”, in New York Times[1]:
- It doesn’t seem accidental that the phrase “luck of the draw” can apply equally to cardplaying or gunslinging, or that the denouement of “Lucky You” — a showdown between Mr. Bana’s character and his nemesis, L. C., played by Robert Duvall — recalls not just the 52-card catharsis of “The Cincinnati Kid” but also the showdowns that climax many great westerns.