Common Bridge Expressions

"One last match"

"One last bet"

"Rubber" means "dealer", so "one last deal"

"One last bid"

Keeping notes on the score sheet border

Scoring bonus points which do not count towards completing games

Scoring points which count doubly towards completing games

Writing on the opponents' part of the score sheet (your own part being below the line)

The player is politely asking his partner to pay attention to the game

The player is notifying the opponents that his partner's last bid has a conventional meaning

The player is warning everyone that police are on the way

The player is informing an opponent that one of his cards has fallen on the table face-up

You can always make 2NT, but never 3NT

When you have 8 cards in a suit, finesse for the Queen. When you have 9 cards in a suit, play Ace and King hoping to drop the Queen

You should always bid 2NT, but never 3NT

When you hold both the 8 and the 9 of a suit, always lead the 8, never the 9

Every human being has two hands, so this is an expression meaning no man can play well enough to win all the time

The third player in the order of a trick should play his highest card in the suit being played

The third deal in a rubber scores higher than the others

The third trick in a deal counts more than the others

Lose two consecutive rubber games

Concede a losing card to the worst of the opponents

Play a losing card from one hand and discard a losing card of another suit from the other hand

Team up the two worst players as opponents, so that you get an easy rubber win

Tricks that can be won without surrendering the lead

Tricks that can be won in declarer's hand only, not needing dummy's cards

Tricks that can be won late in the play

Tricks that can be won in dummy's hand only, not needing declarer's cards

They kept breaking his concentration, by tapping him on the shoulder

They executed a rare defensive stratagem called "multi-tap triple-squeeze endplay" that can happen once in every million hands

They kept breaking his concentration, by tapping the table

They forced him to ruff, shortening his trump holding

A card playing technique

A hand with no card higher than a nine (i.e. an almost worthless hand)

A bidding convention useful for slam investigation

A type of bidding box (a placeholder for the bidding cards)

My right hand opponent communicated telepathically with me and mentally persuaded me to not bid the game

My right hand opponent had a crisis and we had to interrupt our game and get help

My right hand opponent made a completely deceiving and misleading bid that made our side miss game

My right hand opponent got very angry, so we hesitated to bid game