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

"What a brick you are, Mabel, I knew you would turn up trumps about it."

From To Love by Margaret Peterson

Miss Roscoe will expect me to turn up trumps.

From The Youngest Girl in the Fifth A School Story by Stanley Davis

If I do, it will be to turn up trumps at the right moment.

From The Amateur Cracksman by E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung