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50 Words for Snow ( Kate Bush song )
A Kestrel For A
Knave
( Barry Hines book )
A face as long as a
fiddle
A few
cards
short of a full deck
Ace up his sleeve
As fit as a
fiddle
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Brain picker
But
screw
your courage to the sticking-place
Card sharp
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Card up his sleeve
Cash for questions
Caught with your hand in the cookie jar
Cheat sheet
Cheater, cheater, pumpkin eater
Cheaters never win, and winners never cheat ( proverbial saying )
Cheats
never prosper
Cheese eater
Cradle
robber
Dark horse
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Deal from the bottom of the deck
Deck of
cards
Do a number on
Do my eyes
deceive
me?
Do out of
Do the dirty on
Does the
trick
Double cross
Every
trick
in the book
Face card ( the jack queeen or king in a set of playing
cards
)
Face like a
fiddle
Flatter to
deceive
Get away with it
Glove money
He's got a
screw
loose
Heads I win, tails you lose
Hey Good Lookin ( Hank Williams song )
Hey diddle diddle, the cat and the
fiddle
( line from nursery rhyme )
Hiking the Appalachian Trail ( euphemism for
adultery
)
Hold all the
cards
Holding your
cards
close to your chest
House of
cards
I've been
cheated
by you since I don't know when ( ABBA lyric )
Lay your
cards
on the table
Load the dice
Love cheat
Love rat
Low blow
Lucky at cards, unlucky in love
Mary had a little lamb its
fleece
was white as snow ( line from nursery rhyme )
Never misses a
trick
Nickel and dime
On the
cards
On the
fiddle
On the make
Once a cheater, always a
cheater
( the notion that
cheats
never change their ways )
One
trick
pony
Play dirty
Play second
fiddle
Play your
cards
right
Pull a fast one
Pull a sickie
Put your
cards
on the table
Rip off
Robber
barons
Screw
around
Screw
you, hippy ( A catchphrase from South Park )
Screw
your courage to the sticking place
Screw
yourself ( IKEA advertising slogan )
Shell game
Slipped my moorings ( euphemism for
adultery
)
Sneak
peek
Sneak
preview
Stitch up
Take a Mulligan
The Indian rope
trick
There's many a good tune played on an old
fiddle
Trick
of the light
Trick
or treat
Turn a
trick
Under the counter
Voter
fraud
Welsh on
What a tangled web we weave when first we practice to
deceive
Wide boy
You can't cheat an honest man
Your Cheating Heart ( Hank Williams song )