trump card , auch: trump *

Although the hour is late, we still have a trump card to play.

But she decided not to use it as a trump card.

Time to play his last trump card, and hope it was good enough.

I decided that the time had come for me to play my trump card.

With the way he'd designed the campaign, he still had a lot of trump cards.

We've got a chance now and we're holding the trump card.

But now, the community school board is pulling a trump card.

For that purpose, we hold trump cards which others do not.

At the moment, the union is playing what could prove to be its trump card.

As her trump card, she had brought people taken from the great nations of the council itself.

We had beaten him, but he played a final trump card.

Can be considered a trump card in the fight against darkness.

The last, which is the trump card, must be turned up before the dealer.

If his appeals get out of hand, we can always play the trump card.

And what is the one thing the Russians have in hand as a trump card?

He looked at me as if presenting a type of trump card.

Now, with my daughter, your trump card is her ambition.

After a long breath, she pulled out the trump card she'd been holding for five years.

Valentine had expected something like this and played his trump card.

In return, it promised not to play its one trump card - water.

These games change the status of trump cards; the player also must play against the other three players.

The term also refers to the playing of a trump card.

If a player can't follow suit he must play trump card.

The real trump card for the Germans was the radio.

And perhaps it was time to play the trump card up his sleeve.