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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

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on the books
on the borderline
on the bright side
on the brink
on the brink of
on the bubble
on the button
on the cards
on the carpet
on the case
on the cheap
on the contrary
on the cusp
on the cutting edge
on the cutting room floor

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