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• hold all the cards — To have control over all of the factors that may determine the outcome of a situation • • • Main Entry: ↑card * * * hold/have/all the cards phrase to be in a good position to beat or defeat someone because you have all the advantages The… …   Useful english dictionary

• hold all/all of the cards — hold (all/all of) the cards : to be in control of a situation and have the power to make decisions It s your decision. You re holding all the cards. • • • Main Entry: ↑card hold (all/all of) the cards see ↑card, 1 • • • Main Entry: ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

• hold the cards — hold (all/all of) the cards : to be in control of a situation and have the power to make decisions It s your decision. You re holding all the cards. • • • Main Entry: ↑card hold (all/all of) the cards see ↑card, 1 • • • Main Entry: ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

• hold your cards close to your chest — hold/keep/play/your cards close to your chest phrase to not tell people what you are thinking or planning In business, it pays to play your cards close to your chest. Thesaurus: to keep something secretsynonym Main entry …   Useful english dictionary

• hold all the cards — ► to be in a strong position when you are competing with someone else, because you have all the advantages: »Management holds all the cards when it comes to the negotiations over job cuts. Main Entry: ↑hold …   Financial and business terms

• Hold — may refer to: * Hold, to delay temporarily the handling of * Hold (ship), interior cargo space * Hold (aviation), a place for an aircraft to loop around near its destination * Hold (baseball), a statistic that may be awarded to a relief pitcher * …   Wikipedia

• hold all the cards — ► hold all the cards be in a very strong position. Main Entry: ↑card …   English terms dictionary

• hold — hold1 W1S1 [həuld US hould] v past tense and past participle held [held] ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(in your hand/arms)¦ 2¦(event)¦ 3¦(keep something in position)¦ 4¦(job/title)¦ 5¦(keep/store)¦ 6¦(keep something available for somebody)¦ 7¦(keep somebody… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• Hold'em — In die Kategorie Hold’em (Abkürzung von hold them, dt. halte sie) fallen alle Pokervarianten, bei denen im Laufe einer Runde eine oder mehrere Karten (Community Cards, dt. Gemeinschaftskarten) in die Mitte des Tisches gelegt werden, die alle… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

• hold — A process by which a bank restricts funds deposited by checks. Usually but not always used to restrict the proceeds of checks drawn on other banks until the funds have been transferred by the drawor s bank to an account that the depositor s bank… …   Financial and business terms

• cards — n. 1) to play cards 2) to cut; deal; shuffle the cards 3) playing cards 4) (misc.) to stack the cards ( to prearrange conditions to one s own advantage ) to hold all the cards ( to be in a strong negotiating position ); to be in (AE), on (BE) the …   Combinatory dictionary