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ace in the hole

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ace in the hole and someone's ace in the hole
Fig. something important held in reserve. The twenty-dollar bill I keep in my shoe is my ace in the hole.
See also: ace, hole


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Besides, in the political poker of presidential politics Romney has an ace in the hole.
``You have a huge local interest and that's always the ace in the hole for Los Angeles.
Annie Proulx's That Old Ace in the Hole (Scribner, $13, 288 pp.
 
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