TO PUT ON ONE'S TRUMPS

Definition: TO PUT ON ONE'S TRUMPS

TO PUT ON ONE'S TRUMPS

1. To force to the last expedient, or to the utmost exertion. But when kings come so low as to fawn upon philosophy, which before they neither valued nor understood, it is a sign that fails not, they are then put to their last trump. --Milton. Put the housekeeper to her trumps to accommodate them. --W. Irving.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

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