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
Sandhya	-	Hinduism, Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam
Linnie	LIN-ee	English
Brenton	['brentn]
Les	[lez]
Joiner	['dʒɔinə]
Mattanyahu	-	Biblical Hebrew