in the cards
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Referring to the reading of tarot cards to foresee the future.
Pronunciation[edit]
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Prepositional phrase[edit]
- (idiomatic) Destined or fated to happen; predicted or foreseen.
- I don't think another child is in the cards for them.
- 1947, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations, Government Corporations Appropriation Bill for 1948, page 31:
- You will not sell enough to put in your eye. It is not in the cards.