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
Then letting fall the dead man's hand, she wrote her own name firmly into the blank space.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846 by Various
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