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Tue 08 Aug 2008Even when on a losing streak, poker enriches your vocabulary
SHAGGY DOGS:TO CALL a person's bluff is to test their claims and issue a challenge for them to reveal the truth.
Poker, from which the phrase derives, is essentially a game of deception where each player pretends to have the winning hand and the others have to consider the truth of that assertion against the value of the cards in their own hand.
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