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turn up trumps
Idioms and Phrases
End well, succeed, as in Some brief courtships and hasty marriages turn up trumps . This expression alludes to card games in which trump cards are superior to cards of other suits. [Late 1700s]Example Sentences
They goes and buys things that they haven't got the money to pay for, and then waits to see if they'll turn up trumps.
I hope it'll turn up trumps, though it's a bit of a risk in my opinion.
And so I have felt entirely certain that that machine would turn up trumps eventually.
I never thought that invention would turn up trumps after all these years.
The thing may or may not turn up trumps, but in any case I have made an effort to spare a little money to buy some of the shares.
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Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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