on the cards

Meaning

1. Oxford100% of films

   likely to happen

   Deep breaths, kid, deep. [GROANING] You are up on the cards. You're winning this.

   In your own time, gentlemen.

In the movies · 7

• In your own time, gentlemen.19172019
• I guess it's just not in the cards for guys like us.Spider-Man: No Way Home2021
• It's never gonna happen for me. It's not in the cards for me.The Notebook2004
• So what's on the cards, then, Sergeant?19172019
• Deep breaths, kid, deep. You are up on the cards. You're winning this.Creed2015
• Not in the cardsTRON: Legacy2010
• Cards cards Playing cards PokerPokémon Detective Pikachu2019
• They held all the cardsJohn Wick: Chapter 42023

Learn it in full scenes

• Creed2015
  • Adonis Asks Rocky to Train Him
  • Adonis and Bianca's First Date
  • Rocky Agrees to Train Adonis

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• tip your hand
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