Idiom
play with a full deck
Meaning
To behave in a manner suggesting that one is of normal intelligence, alert, and mentally stable.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“He says strange things, so I doubt he is playing with a full deck.”
“After hearing his bizarre plan to fix the broken engine with tape and glue, I began to wonder if he was playing with a full deck.”
“The witness gave such a disjointed and irrational account of the evening that the detective privately questioned whether the man was playing with a full deck.”
Examples
simple
“He says strange things, so I doubt he is playing with a full deck.”
contextual
“After hearing his bizarre plan to fix the broken engine with tape and glue, I began to wonder if he was playing with a full deck.”
complex
“The witness gave such a disjointed and irrational account of the evening that the detective privately questioned whether the man was playing with a full deck.”
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