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词汇 a wild card
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Idiom
a wild card
1.
someone or something that you do not know much about and whose behaviour in the future you cannot be certain of.
The real wild card is the undecided vote, which accounts for 18 to 25 percent of the electorate.The company is fast gaining a reputation as the wild card of Wall Street because of violent fluctuations in its profits.
2.
if someone gets a wild card or is a wild card in a sports competition, they are allowed to enter the competition without passing the usual tests.
She was included in the European team as a wild card.
idioma wild carduncertain used about someone or something that makes you worry or feel uncertain, because you do not know how they will behave, whether they will be successful etc:He was a bit of a wild card, my grandfather was, rather too fond of strong drink.Wine growing is risky business. Just how the quality and quantity of the crop will turn out is an enormous wild card.

wild card

1. In a card game, a card that the player can choose to represent any card. He's going to play his wild card as an ace to win.
2. Someone or something that is unpredictable. He is too much of a wild card to be a successful candidate. Nobody wants to vote for someone wildly unpredictable. The wild card in this game will be the weather.
3. A person or team who is permitted to participate in an event or competition, such as a round of playoffs, without having to adhere to the usual entry protocol. The wild card rarely wins the championship, but anything is possible.
4. In computing, a character that is substituted for an unknown character in a search. An asterisk is often used as a wild card in database searches.

a wild card

You describe someone or something as a wild card when they cause uncertainty because nobody knows how they will behave or what effects they will have. Some Italians think of her as a possible wild card in next year's presidential election. Note: In games such as poker, a wild card is a card that can have any value a player chooses.
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