stack the cards
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"You can't really stack the cards against a character much higher."
From Time Magazine Archive
I have a hard game ahead of me and I'm going to stack the cards.
From The Garden of Eden by Brand, Max
The posse in the valley—that was what would stack the cards against them.
From The Heart of the Range by White, William Patterson
He means so that no will-breaking brothers or cousins can stack the cards agin you.
From Money Magic A Novel by Garland, Hamlin
When their hearts is touched they’re likely to stack the cards, look at the bottom of the deck, an’ lie like the devil—beggin’ your pardon, ma’am.
From Love of Life and Other Stories by Bull, Charles Livingston
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