race card

*race card

Cliché the issue of race magnified and injected into a situation which might otherwise be non-racial. (Typically: deal ~; play ~; use ~.) At the last minute, the opposition candidate played the race card and lost the election for himself.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Flynn	FLIN	English (Rare)
Marietta	-	Italian
Svetoslav	-	Bulgarian, Medieval Slavic
&Aelig;Lfswi&Thorn;	-	Anglo-Saxon
April	['eiprəl]
Glauco	GLOW-ko (Italian, Spanish)	Italian, Spanish, Portuguese