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"Shuffle the cards" = xáo bài -> nghĩa bóng là thay đổi chính sách.
Ví dụ
Now proceed to shuffle the cards, and to examine what is happening, use a regular method of shuffling them.
The speed of the shuffle should be about the same as if you were shuffling the cards before a game of bridge, snap, or whatever it is you normally play.
It is possible that the hostages' [con tin] question will provide a bridgehead [khu vực chiếm được] for the United States to enter into more than one war in the area and to shuffle the cards.
We have no desire to give another whirl to the revolutionary [cách mạng] E. O table, or once more to shuffle the cards for the chance of turning up such trumps [quân bài chủ] as will best suit the political gamblers of the Palais Royal.
Thu Phương
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