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Shoot an Angle - Poker (gambling)


Use an angle (Any technically legal but ethically dubious way to increase your expectation at a game; a trick.).

phlegm (iou)



phlegm noun. Also (earlier) flegm. ME.
[Old French fleume (mod. flegme) from late Latin phlegma clammy moisture of the body from Greek = inflammation, morbid state as the result of heat, from phlegein to burn.]
Orig. (now Hist.), one of the four bodily humours, believed to cause indolence or apathy. Later, the thick viscous fluid secreted by the mucous membranes of the respiratory passages, esp. when excessive or abnormal; spec. that of the throat and bronchi, brought up by coughing; sputum. ME.
M. Wesley Rose wheezed, coughed..her mouth full of phlegm.
b. A mass of phlegm, or Other mucous secretion. M16-E18.
Alchemy & Chemistry. Water as a principle of matter; any watery odourless and tasteless substance obtained by distillation. L15-E19.
Phlegmatic temperament or disposition; absence of excitability or enthusiasm; dullness, sluggishness, apathy; calmness, self-possession, evenness of temper. (Formerly believed to result from a predominance of phlegm in the constitution.) L16.
R. Macaulay Clare was always restless; she had none of Jane's phlegm and stolidity.
phlegmless adjective (rare) M17.