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to up the stakes

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  • raise the stakes — verb a) To raise the stakes of a hand of poker With a royal flush, he decided to raise the stakes. b) to increase in significance or risk The bank robber decided to take a …   Wiktionary

  • in the … stakes — in the… stakes idiom used to say how much of a particular quality a person has, as if they were in a competition in which some people are more successful than others • John doesn t do too well in the personality stakes. Main entry: ↑stakeidiom …   Useful english dictionary

  • raise the stakes — to increase in importance or danger. Employees who lost all their pensions have raised the stakes for the company by going to court and filing a lawsuit. Related vocabulary: up the ante …   New idioms dictionary

  • Stakes (VRC) — The VRC Stakes (also known as the VRC Emirates Stakes), is the final day of the Melbourne Cup Spring Racing Carnival at Flemington. Stakes Day is held on the Saturday directly following Melbourne Cup Day (the first Tuesday in November). The… …   Wikipedia

  • stakes — [plural] ► the amount of money you risk losing by guessing the result of something wrongly: »The City continued to play for high stakes in shares of the airline. ► in a business activity, the stakes are the level of risk and possible profit… …   Financial and business terms

  • The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — Classification Latter Day Saint movement Theology Nontrinitarian, Mormonism Governance …   Wikipedia

  • The Staunton-Morphy controversy — concerns the failure of negotiations in 1858 for a chess match between Howard Staunton and Paul Morphy and later interpretations of the actions of the two players. The details of the events are not universally agreed, and accounts and… …   Wikipedia

  • The Tale of the Heike — ( Heike monogatari , 平家物語) is an epic account of the struggle between the Taira and Minamoto clans for control of Japan at the end of the 12th century in the Genpei War (1180 1185). Heike (平家) refers to the Taira (平) clan; hei being an alternate… …   Wikipedia

  • The World of Kong — The World of Kong: A Natural History of Skull Island is a 2005 encyclopedic book, made for the release of Peter Jackson s King Kong. The book tells all about King Kong s fictional world. It talks about everything on Skull Island, from the… …   Wikipedia

  • The Great Automatic Grammatizator — The Umbrella Man redirects here. For other uses, see Umbrella Man. The Great Automatic Grammatizator (published in the U.S. as The Umbrella Man and Other Stories ) is a collection of thirteen short stories written by British author Roald Dahl.… …   Wikipedia

  • The Young King Of Easaidh Ruadh — is a Scottish fairy tale collected by John Francis Campbell in his Popular Tales of the West Highlands , listing his informant as James Wilson, a blind fiddler, in Islay. Andrew Lang included a variant in The Lilac Fairy Book , as The King of the …   Wikipedia

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