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*card

Fig. an entertaining and clever person who says or does funny things. (*Typically: act like ~; be ~.) He is such a card. Always making jokes. Mary is a card, and she has to learn to take things seriously sometimes.

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a calling card a drawing card a hole card a house of cards a trump card a wild card be a fully paid-up member of be on the cards be one card cards short of a full deck card

card-carrying member cards are stacked against drawing card few bricks short of a load have a card up sleeve have all the cards have the cards stacked against hold all the aces hold all the cards in the cards

keep cards close to chest lay cards on the table Lucky at cards, unlucky in love play cards close to chest play cards right play trump card put cards on the table race card stack the deck the cards are stacked against