dead man's hand
Americannoun
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There’s even a sly reference to “aces and eights,” poker-playing Wild Bill Hickok’s famous dead man’s hand.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 7, 2018
The line "Read 'em and weep - the dead man's hand again" was, said Lemmy, a tribute to the Old West gunslinger Wild Bill Hickok.
From BBC • Dec. 29, 2015
Hickok was still holding his cards - aces and eights, since known as the dead man's hand.
From BBC • Dec. 29, 2015
Dirty water from a blacksmith's tub, or the touch of a dead man's hand, will cure facial blemishes.
From Time Magazine Archive
With a hey lillelu and a how lo lan; Or got thou it off a dead man's hand?
From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume IV by Various
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