turn up trumps

Idioms  

1. End well, succeed, as in Some brief courtships and hasty marriages turn up trumps. This expression alludes to card games in which trump cards are superior to cards of other suits. [Late 1700s]

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turn up trumps

But the difficulty with manipulating reality and civil lists thus is that scenarios can turn bad as well as turn up trumps.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 25, 2012

King Edward, who looked remarkably like Clement Freud, was an unexpected smash hit, the cheering implication being that you-know-who may turn up trumps.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 24, 2010

A man I know in the City tells me that most of the things he touches turn up trumps.

From Bones in London by Edgar Wallace

From him I derived some valuable information; or perhaps, I ought to say some information that I think may turn up trumps.

From Run to Earth A Novel by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

I’m trying still, though, to get a key made, and it may turn up trumps.

From Blind Policy by George Manville Fenn

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