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Stronger Than the Nuts - Poker (gambling) and soilure (iou)


Stronger Than the Nuts - Poker (gambling)


Describing a game so very crooked that the live ones would find it harder to beat than the shell game. The nuts here refer to those used in the shell game (which, like the three-card monte found on the street, is known as the game the suckers never win at), not the unbeatable Poker hand.

soilure (iou)



soilure noun. Now arch. or literary. ME.
[Old French soilleure (mod. souillure), from soillier: see SOIL verb1, -URE.]
Soiling, staining, (lit. & fig.). ME.
A stain, a blot, a blemish, (lit. & fig.). E19.