shuffle the cards
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.47 in modern English
30
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
3
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To reorganize or restructure an organization or situation.
verb
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see shuffle, cards.
Example Sentences
- "Things often look as though they have radically changed; whereas they have just taken on opposite appearances, as they so often do, to shuffle the cards and set people on a side track."
- "Lesbian bohemians whose economic status was less secure and whose lives were less would-be-conventional, like surrealists Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore, were sometimes less clearly inverted or more inclined to play with gender ('shuffle the cards') in proto-queer ways."
- "It shuffled the cards in our region and changed the perception that Israel is an undefeatable country."
- "His example shows that the mukhabarat play a role that goes beyond dirty tricks: they are also adept at shuffling the cards in order to manipulate the minds and attitudes of the public."
- "But the 1979 Islamic Revolution of Khumeini shuffled the cards, in fact unwittingly serving as the precursor of the Islamic Spring."
- "When the university was reformed in the Eighties, changes in the organization of the School shuffled the cards in such a way that data does not allow us to compare numbers."