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06-19-2015, 12:17 PM
gambit
\ GAM-bit \ , noun;
1.
A remark made to open or redirect a conversation.
2.
Chess . An opening in which a player seeks to obtain some advantage by sacrificing a pawn or piece.
3.
Any maneuver by which one seeks to gain an advantage.
Quotes:
The leader was eyeing him up and down, shrewdly calculating. "Thirsty as all that, are you, my friend?" he asked. Gratefully Bomilcar seized upon the gambit . “Thirsty enough to buy everyone here a drink,” he said.
-- Colleen McCullough, The First Man in Rome
But in other cases the gambit may be a dependent clause introducing or rounding off some larger unit whose illocutionary force it helps to establish.
-- Thierry Fontenelle, Practical Lexicography: A Reader
Origin:
Gambit is primarily a term used in chess. It came from the Italian idiom gambetto meaning "to trip up."
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\ GAM-bit \ , noun;
1.
A remark made to open or redirect a conversation.
2.
Chess . An opening in which a player seeks to obtain some advantage by sacrificing a pawn or piece.
3.
Any maneuver by which one seeks to gain an advantage.
Quotes:
The leader was eyeing him up and down, shrewdly calculating. "Thirsty as all that, are you, my friend?" he asked. Gratefully Bomilcar seized upon the gambit . “Thirsty enough to buy everyone here a drink,” he said.
-- Colleen McCullough, The First Man in Rome
But in other cases the gambit may be a dependent clause introducing or rounding off some larger unit whose illocutionary force it helps to establish.
-- Thierry Fontenelle, Practical Lexicography: A Reader
Origin:
Gambit is primarily a term used in chess. It came from the Italian idiom gambetto meaning "to trip up."
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