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inside straight
noun
- Poker. a set of four cards, as the five, seven, eight, and nine, requiring one card of a denomination next above or below the second or third ranking cards of the set to make a straight.
Idioms and Phrases
- draw to an inside straight, to build up hopes for something that has little or no chance of happening.
Example Sentences
Before the conviction on Thursday in Manhattan, the former president had drawn what some of his closest advisers regarded as a defense lawyer鈥檚 equivalent of an inside straight: something close to perfection.
It鈥檚 long odds 鈥 it鈥檚 like going for an inside straight.
He leads a portfolio of groups, including a brassy, hard-swinging big band, the elegant hard-bop quintet Inside Straight and the quartet New Jawn, which is heard on the freewheeling 鈥淧rime,鈥 McBride鈥檚 18th album as a leader, out later this month.
鈥淭he president鈥檚 aides sent texts to one another with digital high fives,鈥 Politico reports, 鈥渁nd likened their apparent luck to drawing an inside straight.鈥
Lieberman pulled off the political inside straight only once, in 2006.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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