- play with a full deck
- phrasal to be rational or sane
New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.
play with a full deck
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play with a full deck — in. to operate as if one were mentally sound. (Usually in the negative. One cannot play cards with a partial deck.) □ That guy’s not playing with a full deck. □ Look sharp, you dummies! Pretend you are playing with a full deck … Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions
play with a full deck — to be mentally alert Euphemistic only in the negative: The writer of that piece of filth is obviously not playing with a full deck. (Sanders, 1992) And see fifty cards in the pack … How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms
play with a full deck — idi Slang. to be sane (used esp. in the negative) … From formal English to slang
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