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beggar-my-neighbour
noun
- a card game in which one player tries to win all the cards of the other player
- modifier relating to or denoting an advantage gained by one side at the expense of the other
beggar-my-neighbour policies
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Blind each of one eye, they set to dealing their cards for beggar-my-neighbour.
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Diplomacy is after all a simple game—even elementary—a magnificent beggar-my-neighbour which we continue to play into eternity.'
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On principle, Clare disliked losing, even at Beggar-my-Neighbour.
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People aren't such fools as to start playing beggar-my-neighbour with Ascher, Stutz & Co.
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How could they have known that it was not beggar-my-neighbour?
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