bridge partner
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- noun
- Jargon
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compañero de bridge
- Right, well, you know, maybe somewhere down the line you can find me a nice old gal who's looking for, like, a...bridge partner.
- a regular bridge partner
Examples
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This is my friend, Rachel, my regular bridge partner in our weekly games.
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This is Elliot Saunders, my bridge partner.
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She and the Peytons and the bridge partner.
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It's my bridge partner!
Fiction book (1994) -
Today, Edie has been thinking, as her mother chattered endlessly over her lunch about the divorce of one of her bridge partners ("poor Brenda," Mrs. Goodman said, "everyone saw it coming but her"), that there is one good thing: Mrs. Goodman is shopping for herself instead of for Edie.
Fiction book (1994) -
I always have a great time playing cards with my bridge partner, Tom, every Friday.
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At the tournament, our bridge partner strategy really impressed everyone.
Synonyms
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1.6
A person who is on the same team as you
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'bridge' (the card game) + 'partner' (teammate) yields a teammate in the game of bridge. This noun–noun combination follows a common, transparent pattern cross-linguistically, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
The phrase bridge partner comes from the card game bridge. In the game your partner sits with you as a teammate to plan and try to win together, so the term means 'a teammate on the same side'.