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find the lady

noun

  1. another name for three-card trick

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Yakov won the first two games, but when it came time to find the Lady at three-card monte, he uncovered a worthless heart.

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It gave us a glimpse of the deft visual sleights of hand which would become the film-maker trademark – a ninja training scene in which Wayne’s identity shifts between masked figures, like a human game of find the lady, is pure Nolan.

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Back in Tampa, a few blocks from where he lived, a street hustler had conducted rounds of Find the Lady outside a cigar store.

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Watching a game of Find the Lady, neither hustler nor mark, outside the game but knowing all its rules.

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“We have a significant measure of optimism that we should be able to find the lady within the shortest time possible,” Boinnet said.

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