cardsharp

1 Not shark but sharp, and it’s spelled as one word, cardsharp.

2 In his fist he cradles a derringer, the sort of pint-size pistol favored by ladies and cardsharps.

3 He believed that if he was in England with plenty of money he could track down that cardsharp lie.

4 Watch her closely, the way you might watch the hands of a fast-dealing cardsharp, and be rewarded: a perfect, tiny can-you-believe-this eye roll here, a feline smile melting into laughter there.

5 We meet newly married Minna, the daughter of German immigrants, and her husband, Robert, a police officer more used to dealing with cattle thieves and cardsharps than lost boys.

6 Ball, the Bull of Broad Street, in “Easy Living,” or when cardsharp Barbara Stanwyck makes an utter fool of ale heir Henry Fonda in “The Lady Eve.”

7 From his love of TV westerns, he learned the sleights of hand used by cardsharps.

8 But their plan to create an army of South American cardsharps had a fatal flaw: Neither of them spoke Spanish.

9 A pitch thrown “down the pipe” instead of “down the pike” is considered an eggcorn, as is “card shark” for “cardsharp.”

10 He was Bret Maverick, a cardsharp and ladies man who got by on his wits instead of a six-gun and would just as soon duck a fight as face a showdown.

11 After a few drinks Goldberger began, with some hesitation, to narrate how he had had a quarrel over his best girl with a professional "cardsharp," who had hit him in the jaw.

12 And there is possibly no American actor more suited than Mr. Mays to shuffling through the dozens of players in Dickens’s celebrated tale with the ease of a cardsharp.

13 The phrase echoed his resolve to keep in memory his creative forebears: the illusionists and enchanters, the charlatans and cardsharps, the human cannonballs, armless artists, learned animals and practitioners of ancient acts that still amaze.

14 Pilgrims would walk these roads for days to the cathedral plaza, and then camp out there amid the raucous brass bands and cardsharps and carnival rides.

15 He’d learned sleight of hand from the cardsharps and monte runners on East Stave, and spent hours practicing it in front of a muddy mirror he’d bought with his first week’s pay.

16 Both were variations on the biblical story of the Prodigal Son, and these two artists were by no means the only artists to paint cardsharp scenes.

17 They watched his dealing more closely, mistaking his clumsiness for a cardsharp’s sleight of hand.

18 Father-daughter cardsharps fleece a rich man’s son on a cruise ship.

19 To be sure, Mrs. Clem speculated in dubious investments and openly consorted with cardsharps, forgers and other scam artists.

20 The yarn Guimarães tells about encountering one of his idols, a storied cardsharp who could effortlessly pull off any sleight of hand necessary to tilt a high-stakes game in his favor, gets lost in the shuffle of the show’s activities.

1 以纸牌骗赌为生者

cardsharper card shark

2 作弊老手

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