Meanings
- not comparableStated as a maxim.
It is maximed — win the trick when in doubt: if it be against you, win it certainly; if your partner's, you may, ever and anon, give him the benefit of the doubt.
1844, Henry Wood, Whist: Its History and Practice, page 58
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