play cards

play (one's) cards

Informal

To use the resources or strategies at one's disposal: played her cards right and got promoted.

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Herleifr	-	Ancient Scandinavian
Juniper	JOON-ə-pər	English (Rare)
Ilona	EE-lo-naw (Hungarian), ee-LO-nah (German), EE-lo-nah (Finnish)	Hungarian, German, Finnish, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Czech
Ashken	['æʃkən]
Koharu	ko-hah-ṙoo	Japanese
Addams	['ædəmz]