切り札
Meanings
Noun
1. trump; trump card
2. ace up one's sleeve; secret weapon
Other spellings
切札
Kanji used
Pitch accent
きりふだ
Composed of
切り
end; finish; place to stop; bound; limit; finale (of a noh song); end of an act (in jōruri or kabuki); final performance of the day (in vaudeville); trump card; king (court card; in mekuri karuta and unsun karuta); …
Noun
Examples4
あの
The president of that company has an ace up her sleeve.
切り札
Keep that ace up your sleeve. If you're going to show it, have another even further up.
きっと
I'm sure he has something up his sleeve.
「背が伸びて
"We've got taller so they don't fit." "Right, it's certainly not that we've got fat!" "The useful phrase 'grown up' is our trump card."