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
Tancredi	-	Italian
Tomoko	to-mo-ko	Japanese
Akihito	[æki'hi:təu]
Rashida	-	Arabic
Dinko	-	Croatian
Kim (2)	KEEM (Finnish)	Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish