up one's sleeve

Idioms  

1. see card up one's sleeve.

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Example Sentences

Of course, as Mr. Guttman well knows, it pays to have a few tricks up one’s sleeve.

From New York Times

In the interview, Dr. Tu told New Scientist that she reread a particular recipe, written more than 1,600 years ago in a text titled “Emergency Prescriptions Kept Up One’s Sleeve.”

From New York Times

Like the extensive writings of legendary Scientific American columnist Martin Gardner this book seeks to make mathematics come alive for an intelligent and curious audience by engaging the reader in a lively informal style, and with irresistible invocations to roll up one’s sleeve and experiment.

From Scientific American

Who we are being so many hard facts held like candies or coins, just up one’s sleeve — one’s father, one’s mother, all the things that might quaintly be termed one’s station.

From Literature

That card one has always, thank God, up one's sleeve, and the production of it is only a question of a little shake of the arm.

From Project Gutenberg