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beggar-my-neighbour

noun

  1. a card game in which one player tries to win all the cards of the other player
  2. modifier relating to or denoting an advantage gained by one side at the expense of the other

    beggar-my-neighbour policies

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

Blind each of one eye, they set to dealing their cards for beggar-my-neighbour.

Diplomacy is after all a simple game—even elementary—a magnificent beggar-my-neighbour which we continue to play into eternity.'

On principle, Clare disliked losing, even at Beggar-my-Neighbour.

People aren't such fools as to start playing beggar-my-neighbour with Ascher, Stutz & Co.

How could they have known that it was not beggar-my-neighbour?

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