“Have an ace up your sleeve”
WorkDefinicja
Posiadać tajną przewagę lub plan, z którego można skorzystać w razie potrzeby.
English: To have a secret advantage or plan that you can use when needed.
Przykłady
Przykłady
1 / 2“Our team has an ace up its sleeve: a prototype no one has seen yet.”
Nasz zespół ma ukrytą przewagę: prototyp, którego nikt jeszcze nie widział.
Use this idiom in context
Rewrite this example in plain English without the idiom. Preserve who is speaking, the time and the meaning.
Our team has an ace up its sleeve: a prototype no one has seen yet.Compare with the original example
Our team has an ace up its sleeve: a prototype no one has seen yet.
Nasz zespół ma ukrytą przewagę: prototyp, którego nikt jeszcze nie widział.
Write a two-line conversation using “Have an ace up your sleeve”. Make the situation clear enough that a reader can infer the meaning. Then replace the idiom with a plain-English explanation: does your conversation still mean the same thing?
Check the expression in a dictionaryNajczęściej zadawane pytania
- What does "Have an ace up your sleeve" mean?
- "Have an ace up your sleeve" means posiadać tajną przewagę lub plan, z którego można skorzystać w razie potrzeby.
- How do you use "Have an ace up your sleeve" in a sentence?
- Example: "Our team has an ace up its sleeve: a prototype no one has seen yet."
- Should I interpret "Have an ace up your sleeve" word for word?
- Understand the expression as a whole. Use the definition and example to learn its meaning rather than translating each word separately.