Deer in the headlights (1986, 1988); Play the "X" card

[Jesse Sheidlower]

On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 08:32:30AM -0500, Grant Barrett wrote:
> >An OED person asked about "play the __ card" today.
>
> You should know better than that. I'm either an OUP person or an HDAS
> person; I am not a part of the OED team. Maybe you could say I am an
> ODAPS person. See how many people figure that out...

Yes. Of course, a _real_ OED person would have realized that
_play the X card_ is already in OED, with a first quote from
1886.

:-)

Jesse Sheidlower
echt-OED