Comment on The Curse review: Emma Stone comes up trumps again in this brilliantly unsettling new television comedy

BertramDitore@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• triprotic@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  In the UK there’s a card game “top trumps”:

  toptrumps.com/home/

  Also in various card games (with a standard 52 card deck), like bridge, beating one hand with a better hand would be said to have one hand ‘trump’ another.

  I hate that there’s a shady guy out there that has that word so tied to him.

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• Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Probably a British expression

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  • MarmaladeMermaid@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’ve heard that in the UK “Trump” is old person slang for a fart and has been since before the American Trump family was well known.

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    • Palerider@feddit.uk ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It is indeed but it’s also used in a lot of card games to describe one hand that trumps (beats) another…

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• nevernevermore@kbin.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Have you played many card games? Trump cards are ones that beat any other card in a hand.

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  • BertramDitore@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m aware of trump cards in card games. I’d just never heard “comes up trumps” as a turn of phrase. Made no sense to me in the context of a tv show.

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    • scottywh@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s really weird phrasing… It’s not just you.

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• ryno364@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Sometimes I think headlines try to find any excuse to put the word “trump” in. Ya know for various reasons…

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• Taako_Tuesday@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Like in Euchre

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