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Gamboler Posted 10 years ago
Vocabulary
Duck in the bottom of the deck
The sentence is: I've never ducked in the bottom of the deck in my life.
Context: Movie USA 1941. No DVD available. Recorded from TV. Conversation between two newspaper reporters and a famous gambler at the airport:
Reporter #1:How's Florida?
Gambler: All right, but it's no place for my profession.
Reporter #2. Don't tell us you're gonna back the lock and open again.
Gambler: Oh, no. I don't like crooked gambling. I've never ducked in the bottom of the deck in my life.
Reporter #1: Then, you mind us asking just why you came back here?
Is to duck in the bottom of the deck an idiom? What does it mean in the context?
Context: Movie USA 1941. No DVD available. Recorded from TV. Conversation between two newspaper reporters and a famous gambler at the airport:
Reporter #1:How's Florida?
Gambler: All right, but it's no place for my profession.
Reporter #2. Don't tell us you're gonna back the lock and open again.
Gambler: Oh, no. I don't like crooked gambling. I've never ducked in the bottom of the deck in my life.
Reporter #1: Then, you mind us asking just why you came back here?
Is to duck in the bottom of the deck an idiom? What does it mean in the context?
Top answer
"the bottom of the deck" appears to refer to the bottom of a deck (pack) of playing cards, and "ducked in" to some form of cheating involving manipulation of the cards, such as dealing from the bottom of the deck rather than the top.
- "the bottom of the deck" appears to refer to the bottom of a deck (pack) of playing cards, and "ducked in" to some form of cheating involving manipulation of the cards, such as dealing from the bottom of the deck rather than the top.
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"the bottom of the deck" appears to refer to the bottom of a deck (pack) of playing cards, and "ducked in" to some form of cheating involving manipulation of the cards, such as dealing from the bottom of the deck rather than the top.
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