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cause verb► cause a vacancyin poker, to win a hand that drives a player from the game US, 1988
idiomcausea lost causefail used about something or someone that has no chance of succeeding:Darrow was a young corporate lawyer, already hopelessly addicted to fighting lost causes.Brando, who believed Clift was a lost cause, left him to deal with his drinking problems himself.
See:- a lost cause
- a rebel without a cause
- all the more reason for
- be for a good cause
- be for/in a good cause
- be in a good cause
- cause (one) qualms
- cause (some) eyebrows to raise
- cause (some) tongues to wag
- cause a commotion
- cause a scene
- cause a splash
- cause a stir
- cause célèbre
- cause eyebrows to raise and cause some raised eyebrows
- cause for alarm
- cause qualms
- cause raised eyebrows
- cause some raised eyebrows
- cause tongues to wag
- cause trouble
- cause/create a stir
- common cause
- deserving cause
- drain off
- give cause for
- give cause for (something)
- give up the cause
- hard feelings
- have cause to (do something)
- have cause to do
- have no cause to (do something)
- lean times
- lost cause
- lost cause, a
- make common cause against (someone or something)
- make common cause with
- make common cause with (someone or something)
- make, cause, etc. a splash
- Men are blind in their own cause
- no one should be judge in his own cause
- par for the course
- rebel without a cause
- root cause
- rub into
- show good cause
- talk to the hand
- the root cause
- worthwhile cause
- worthy cause
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