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inside straight

American

noun

Poker. a set of four cards, as the five, seven, eight, and nine, requiring one card of a denomination next above or below the second or third ranking cards of the set to make a straight.

idioms

draw to an inside straight, to build up hopes for something that has little or no chance of happening.

Example Sentences

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It’s long odds — it’s like going for an inside straight.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 23, 2023

Lieberman pulled off the political inside straight only once, in 2006.

From Washington Post • Dec. 10, 2022

I’ve tried gently explaining, I’ve tried consequences: We go inside straight away.

From Slate • May 22, 2020

“If we pull an inside straight we could get out of here tonight. But I don’t think that’s likely,” House Speaker Shap Smith, D-Morristown, said Friday afternoon.

From Washington Times • May 6, 2016

They were coming by thousands in a regular line of march up our window-sill and down again inside, straight towards the birds.

From Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern by Tylor, Edward Burnett

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