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To speak by the card

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to speak from information and definitely, not by guess as in telling a ship's bearing by the compass card.

See also: Card

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At any rate, it was more like a hearse than any thing else, though to speak by the card, it was a gondola.

The Innocents Abroad by Twain, Mark View in context

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