stack the deck

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Translation of stack the deck into French

Verbal expression

cheat

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arrange things so someone has an unfair advantage
US
truquer les cartes fausser le jeu
  • They tried to stack the deck against us.Ils ont essayé de truquer les cartes contre nous.
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Synonyms and analogies of stack the deck in English

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Examples of stack the deck in a sentence

  • Don't stack the deck when interviewing candidates.

Translations of "stack the deck" in Context ordered by category and frequency

Verb
piper les désv.

She obviously came up with that to stack the deck against me.

Elle est venue pour piper les dés.

It's counterintuitive to this study, and it's actually trying to stack the deck.

Il essaie ni plus ni moins de piper les dés.

fausser le jeuv.

We need to stack the deck in our favor.

Nous avons besoin de fausser le jeu en notre faveur.

We want to stack the deck for success.

On veut fausser le jeu pour gagner.

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Other translations for stack the deck:

  • truquer les cartesv.
  • pile du pont

stack the deck: Examples and translations in context

I say we stack the deck.

je pense qu'on doit piper les dés.

What the government forgot to say is that things were set in motion to stack the deck before the contract was awarded.

Ce que le gouvernement oublie de dire, c'est que tout a été mis en oeuvre pour « piper les dés » avant que le contrat ne soit octroyé.

Why stack the deck against our students?

Pourquoi fausser le jeu et désavantager les étudiants?

I would ask my colleagues to extend a branch of conciliation at this point and say that we should go with standard practice and not try to stack the deck.

Je demande à mes collègues d'adopter une attitude conciliante et de respecter la pratique courante sans tenter de fausser le jeu.

Another concern is that even when media products attempt to present moral dilemmas, they more often than not "stack the deck" in favour of one interpretation.

Une autre préoccupation est que, même lorsque les produits médiatiques tentent de présenter des dilemmes moraux, ils faussent le jeu plus souvent qu'autrement en faveur d'une interprétation.

Do we continue to provide the tools needed by police to counter terrorism or do we take those tools away and help stack the deck against our own country?

Allons-nous continuer à fournir ces outils dont la police a besoin pour contrer le terrorisme, ou allons-nous les lui retirer et contribuer à fausser le jeu à notre désavantage?

But this time we decided to stack the deck in our favour. How?

Cette fois, on a pipé les dés en notre faveur.

He knows that the clock is ticking, so he has decided to stack the deck for the October election.

Comme il sait que le temps presse, il a décidé de piper les dés en sa faveur en vue des élections d'octobre.

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