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Trumps (Grose 1811 Dictionary)

Trumps

To be put to one’s trumps: to be in difficulties, or put to one’s shifts. Something may turn up trumps; something lucky may happen. All his cards are trumps: he is extremely fortunate.

Definition taken from The 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, originally by Francis Grose.

Trumpeter * Trundlers

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About

Francis Grose was independently wealthy, having inherited money from his father, a jeweller. Finding himself overspending, he published a number of books; his Provincial Glossary seems to have been the starting-point for the Vulgar Tongue reproduced here.

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