to stack
73
6.8
- verb
- /stæɡ/
:
amañar
- The deck is stacked against you.
- stack the deck
- odds are stacked
- stacked in favor of
But the third one is you stack the odds in your favor.
- But the third one is you stack the odds in your favor.
- So young men just have the deck stack against them.
- And so it's already like huge odds stacked against you.
- But again, the odds were supposed to be stacked against me.
- He's trying to stack the decks, walking right in putains footsteps.
- Because you have a volatile history and a volatile temper and the deck is stacked against you so bad.
- And it's conceivable that that dream will hit the big time, but the odds are are really stacked against the entrepreneur who won't listen and learn.
- And despite the odds being stacked against her, she's built a multi billion dollar bank here in the UK.
- Stop raising taxes every year that these lower income minorities who have the cards stacked against them, OK, can come join us in school.
- But love that you can now buy Sephora at Kohl's and stack those rewards.
Examples
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The system is stacked against you, and there isn't a bloody thing you can do about it, so why bother trying?
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In any event, H.R. 1 stacks the deck in favor of private plans.
Academic text (2003) -
Within Congress, committee organization and budget treatment also stack against the State Department.
Academic text (2013) -
But the third one is you stack the odds in your favor.
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Now of course, if you go to casino and stack the cards in your favour, what happens?
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In criminal cases, defendants typically have the deck stacked against them going in.
Academic text (1995) -
I actually enjoyed beating the odds when the deck was stacked against me.
Academic text (2008) -
But the trouble is, the odds are stacked against us, and protection can't possibly happen.
Fiction book (1990) -
With the odds stacked against him, the young boy from Leytonstone went on to win a long list of silverware, including six PL titles, two FA cups, one La Liga, one Champions League, and one PFA Young Player of the Year.
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To improve the chances of winning, the player decided to stack the odds in her favor by choosing the best strategy.
Synonyms
7
7.5
Arrange things unfairly so one person or group wins
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How Unfair
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Etymology
Stack meaning to arrange unfairly comes from the idea of putting things in an order to control the result, like 'stacking the deck' of cards. A helpful way to remember it is to imagine someone arranging cards or people so they get the advantage.