Alfred is a trump, I think you say.
Thackeray.
To put to one's trumps, or To put on one's trumps, to force to the last
expedient, or to the utmost exertion.
But when kings come so low as to fawn upon philosophy, which before
they neither valued nor understood, it is a sign that fails not, they
are then put to their last trump.
Milton.
Put the housekeeper to her trumps to accommodate them.
W. Irving.
Trump, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Trumped (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Trumping.] To
play a trump card when one of another suit has been led.
Trump, v. t. To play a trump card upon; to take with a trump card; as,
she trumped the first trick.
Trump, v. t. [F. tromper to deceive, in OF., to blow a trumpet, se
tromper de to mock. See Trump a trumpet.] 1. To trick, or impose on; to
deceive. [Obs.] "To trick or trump mankind." B. Jonson.