Card

To say someone is ‘such a card’ is to say they are lively, fun, entertaining, funny in a ‘ham it up’ sort of way. It takes a bit of flair to be a card. An event card, like at a race or a prize fight, is a listing of which sub-event happens in what order. That ideas also describes an olde fashioned dance card where the lady is asked in advance for a certain dance among all the dances of the evening. I guess she is an event

Someone can be a card carrying member of a group. That means they have earned membership and are allowed the privileges etc of belonging. To call someone a card carrying XXXX could be an insult or a great compliment. A card is usually a stiff paper, cut to about 3.5 by 2 inches which has information printed on it. Could be your calling card, which you leave after you visit, call upon, someone

A credit card is a dangerous flat plastic rectangular object that I can use to buy things and not have to pay for… until later. The credit card industry charges interest on the balance that is unpaid at the end of the month. In order to pay, I could foolishly apply for and receive and then charge another credit card to pay the first one. That is called kiting and use of a card in that way can put me into a deep debt hole

One can print a deck of cards. One kind is used in common card games, everything from ‘black jack’ in which each player has two cards where the person with the total of the two closest to, but not over, 21, wins. The standard deck has 52 cards arranged into four suits of 13, Ace to 10, then Jack, Queen, King. There are thousands of games that are played with such cards. A deck may also include two Jokers (defined by the players)

The card I enjoy a lot is my Starbucks card. I use a credit card to ‘load’ the Starbucks card and then can use it to get many coffee drinks. And voila, no cash money involved (or is there). I like my Starbucks card. Some will say, ‘you are such a card. You should be shuffled and dealt with and then get your ace kicked. Well OK the