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

“We may turn up trumps at any moment, old fellow,” said Dallas cheerily.

From To Win or to Die A Tale of the Klondike Gold Craze by Hardy, Paul

One out of three might turn up trumps.

From Muslin by Moore, George (George Augustus)

In another year or two I might have recovered myself—that devil of a woman might be dead—and I have several irons in the fire, some of which are sure to turn up trumps.

From Colonel Quaritch, V.C. A Tale of Country Life by Haggard, Henry Rider