📚come up trumps
British English✍🏾Meaning
If you come up trumps, you succeed in something that you may not have been expected to succeed in.
❕For example
🔺Nicole came up trumps, winning her match despite her injured knee.
🔺John's dad was sure his son would came up trumps, and he did.
➕Note:
The idiom "to turn up trumps" has the same meaning.
💥Origin: From card games in which a card of the suit that is designated "trumps" is of greater value than a card of another suit, so a player with many trumps in his hand has a good chance of winning.
💢Variety
This idiom is typically used in British English but may be used in other varieties of English too.
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