Definition of beggar-my-neighbor in English:
A card game for two players in which the object is to acquire one’s opponent’s cards. Players alternately turn cards up and if an honor is revealed, the other player must find an honor within a specified number of turns or else forfeit the cards already played.
- A very interesting question about beggar my neighbor is whether there is an infinite game.
- We played Beggar-My-Neighbour and Donkey, two simple card games.
- So Ellie said we could play and he and I went and sat at another table and played Beggar my Neighbour.
adjective[attributive] (also beggar-thy-neighbor) Back to top
(Especially of national policy) self-aggrandizing at the expense of competitors: failure would create a growing risk of trade wars as countries retreated into beggar-thy-neighbor policies
More example sentences
- This is not the time to return to the beggar-my-neighbour policies of the past.
- This contraction in demand was no maverick policy, undertaken in a beggar-my-neighbor spirit.
- They say it is wrong and sad that six towns should have been set against each other, under the review, each engaged in a beggar-my-neighbour strategy to keep its hospital.
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